The Creole was a slave ship headed for New Orleans with a âcargoâ of 135 slavesâbut it would never make it to port, because there was a real-life Django on board. Madison Washington was the shipâs cook and a man whoâd escaped from slavery once before.
Fresno County, California. Fresno County, officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state, California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 930,450. The county seat is Fresno, the fifth-largest city in California.
Fresno is in the center of the San Joaquin Valley and is the largest city in the Central Valley, which contains the San Joaquin Valley. It is approximately 200 miles (320 km) north of Los Angeles, and 170 miles (270 km) south of the state capital, Sacramento.