If they are turning their backs on their history then raze the French Quarter since the French owned slaves and were much worse slaveholders than the colonists.
If you are going to wipe it out, wipe it all out.
...”raze the French Quarter since the French owned slaves...”
Freed slaves took up residence in the French Quarter, where the became craftsmen, businessmen, courtesans.
It was common practice for former slaves to own their own slaves.
Dirty little secret nobody’s supposed to talk about.