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Hello and welcome to episode 364 of Ben Franklin's World.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past

have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Covart.

Welcome back to our summer 2023 road trip or really our water trip.

We're on our way to the second stop and our three stop trip.

From St. Genevieve National Historical Park in Missouri,

we're going to sail down the Mississippi River approximately 620 miles to the port of New Orleans.

At New Orleans, we'll probably stop and pick up supplies,

but then we're going to sail out of the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico

where we're going to head east, approximately 125 miles or so,

to the port of Pascagula, Mississippi.

And this is where we're going to stop so that we can tour the Lapointe Krebs house in museum.

Now the Mississippi Gulf Coast was home to many different cultures and empires during the 17th and 18th century.

This has led some historians to argue that the Gulf Coast region may have been the most diverse region in the olive early North America,

given that it did host many different Native American, European, and African peoples.

The Lapointe Krebs house in museum is really a place where we can stop and investigate

and come to better understand the Gulf Coast region's great diversity.

Founded around 1718, the Lapointe Krebs house served as a home of a prominent Gulf Coast family.

Our tour guide for this site will be Matthew Powell, a historian of slavery in Southern history,

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