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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear what the loss of the Nottoway Plantation House means to descendants of people enslaved ...
Laura Plantation: Louisiana’s Créole Heritage Site Also ... Destrehan Plantation was a major producer of indigo and, later on, sugar cane. By 1804, the plantation had produced over 203,000 ...
The Nottoway Plantation House, a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation, was "the South's largest remaining antebellum mansion." ...
A group of Mexican migrants who spent years harvesting sugar cane on a Louisiana farm say they were ... unskilled field workers for its sugar cane plantation and paid them wages for that job.
The National Park Service (NPS) has withdrawn a Lousiana community with centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring ...
WALLACE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal ...
(AP) — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection ...