page_title: Jerome LeDoux
section_title: Tomb of the Unknown Slave
hierarchical_section_title: Jerome LeDoux / Religious career / Tomb of the Unknown Slave
caption_attribution_description: Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. "Tomb of the Unknown Slave", monument to victims of slavery, on side St. Augustine Church
context_page_description: Father Jerome LeDoux, S.V.D., was a Roman Catholic priest who spent most of his career as a parish priest in New Orleans, Louisiana, especially at the St. Augustine Church. He was noted for his Afrocentric Catholic Masses, his ebullient style and for his writing. LeDoux was featured in a documentary film about St. Augustine Church in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Although well-known, he was active primarily in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi.
context_section_description: With several parishioners at St. Augustine Church, LeDoux conceived of the idea of a Tomb of the Unknown Slave. With the efforts of the church handyman and other interested people, the shrine was constructed and installed in a garden plot at St. Augustine Church, completed by 2005. The shrine consists of heavy chains and iron shackles in the shape of a cross, weighing approximately 1500 pounds. It includes a plaque mounted on the wall of the church. The church property was the site of an archeological dig to the Claude Tremé Plantation House, and the shrine marks graves of unknown slaves from the area.
caption: Tomb of the Unknown Slave
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