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March 14, 2024 | The Tablet
Venerable Henriette Delille Was ‘the Humble Servant of Slaves’
By Bill Miller | The Tablet
Henriette Díaz Delille, a free woman of color before the Civil War, knew privilege and comfort in New Orleans, which was then known as the biggest slave market in the South.
As a child, Delille wore fine clothes, and her family’s elegant home was in the now-historic French Quarter. But as a young woman she chose a very different life.
