The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Compare and contrast race relations in New Orleans and the rest of the United States during the early 1800s.
During the early years of the 1800s, the port of New Orleans lived a particular condition that contrasted with all the southern cities of the United States. In New Orleans lived many black people that were free, in total opposition to the black people that were slaves working in the large plantation fields of the South.
And the reason was not difficult to understand. Before 1803, New Orleans was part of the Louisiana territory that belonged to the French government. When US President Thomas Jefferson ordered the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he sent James Madison to Paris, France, to accelerate the negotiations, and finally, France sold the huge Louisiana territory to the US federal government.
At that time, the rest of the Southern states favored slavery, Indeed, the economy of the South was based on the use of slaves who worked long hours under difficult conditions in the large southern plantations to produce cash crops that were exported to Europe.