Three new proposed chemical plants could more than quadruple ammonia production in the Donaldsonville area, leaving Ascension ...

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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear what the loss of the Nottoway Plantation House means to descendants of people enslaved ...

BACOLOD CITY — Just when the sugar milling season is near, insects have started ravaging sugar cane plantations in Negros Occidental. The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) reported that ...

Working sugar cane was the most brutal of plantation jobs. That, the heat and poor food probably shortened the life span of many slaves. Ed Pratt A common phrase in the Black community when I grew ...

A swarm of red-striped soft scale insects invade sugarcane plantations in the northern part ... a sugar planter in Negros bought patdan or cane points from Luzon several months ago.

See the Big House, the Slavery Exhibit, the Sugarcane Theatre, and the Blacksmith’s Shop, a tribute to the enduring legacy of Louisiana craftsmen ... War and Reconstruction on Cane River and the ...

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Nottoway was built between 1857 and 1859 for John Hampden Randolph (1813-1883), a sugar planter who owned three other plantations ... in Louisiana in 1841. He switched to sugar cane, and slaves ...

Some know the brutality on cotton plantations, but producing sugar like at Nottoway was uniquely deadly and dangerous. By the time Nottoway was built in the 1860s, “Louisiana planters were producing a ...