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We are planning on sailing with these main sails to ports throughout the Gulf Coast to tell the extraordinary story of Beauchamp and his lover carrying the first commercial shipment of indigo down the Mississippi, a crop instrumental in the growth of Louisiana’s slave economy; And celebrating the unsung union halls who provided space for the first public0facing queer organizations in New Orleans . . . halls that were home to the dockworkers and laborers who loaded and unloaded the ships that would build the Port of South Louisiana into the largest port by tonnage in the Western Hemisphere.