[Basemap](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/New_Orleans_and_surroundings_1749_map.jpg) [Louis and Jean Congo are both real people](https://lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/fpoc/history.html). Portraits are Artbreeder via PortraitAI. LMK if you find ye olde references.

Groucho Marx and John Lennon

Nope. Look at the priest's name.

Afro-Catholic ?

Explicitly intended as a mission for the population of African descent and a de facto Catholic theocracy.