Lower Coast of Algiers

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Cut-Off

Algiers is the second oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans, which stretches 12 miles from Riverview to the Cut Off. A rural land, in comparison to the New Orleans’ inner-city, Algiers’ land was cleared by African slaves, and plantation homes were built along the riverfront for the original French colonists. The lower coast of Algiers, is often known for its slave pens, plantations, farms and citrus groves, but there is an even greater story of the people who overcame such subjugation, which is often overlooked in history.

The “Cut Off,” a rural village in the Lower Coast of Algiers, tells a story of struggle and triumph in the midst of scientific, institutional, and structural racism. Presented trough themes of historic faith-based institutions, community leaders, businesses and landmarks, schools, residential development, and faith-based institutions, Images of America: The Lower Coast of Algiers, focuses on the people who shaped the Cut Off community spiritually, culturally, politically, economically, and socially.

Dari Green and Robin Crawford use photos from institutional and personal collections to present the origins and development of this Lower Coast of Algiers community, with an emphasis on the Cut Off. Green in an instructor of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University and Crawford is a genealogy hobbyist employed by the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. They are both natives of the Cut Off community and are elated to share in the Images of America series.