ABSTRACT

In this essay, I present a long history of St. Malo, Louisiana, revealing the ways in which the site’s social, cultural, and physical landscape has been shaped and unmade by the forces of slavery, colonialism, and racial capitalism. St. Malo is a remote area in the coastal wetlands thirty miles south of New Orleans that was home to a fishing village built by Filipino sailors in the mid-nineteenth century. I introduce readers to St. Malo as a historical setting by narrating an encounter between two journalists and the Filipinos of St. Malo in 1883. Then, I trace the forces and networks that brought Filipino sailors to Louisiana in the nineteenth century, situating this movement within a larger history of freedom and unfreedom in the Atlantic World. Finally, I describe my own personal journey to the site of St. Malo in 2019, reflecting on the tensions between local communities’ efforts to preserve the site’s history and the ongoing erasure of the site due to the anthropogenic destruction of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.

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在本文中，我介绍了路易斯安那州圣马洛市的悠久历史，揭示了奴隶制，殖民主义和种族资本主义势力如何塑造和破坏了该遗址的社会，文化和自然景观。圣马洛（St. Malo）是新奥尔良以南30英里的沿海湿地中的一个偏远地区，该地区是十九世纪中叶菲律宾水手建造的一个渔村。我通过叙述两位记者和1883年圣马洛菲律宾人之间的相遇向读者介绍圣马洛作为历史背景。然后，我追溯了19世纪将菲律宾水手带到路易斯安那州的力量和网络，并提出了这一运动。在大西洋世界的更大的自由和非自由历史中 最后，我描述了自己在2019年前往圣马洛遗址的个人旅程，