This is Laurel Valley Plantation, a former sugar plantation in southern Louisiana. Before emancipation, this site relied primarily on enslaved Black labor. The cabins still standing today were built to house enslaved people and their families who worked the fields, mills, and surrounding land. After the Civil War, the plantation continued operating and later employed a mix of free laborers, including local Creole and Acadian workers and, in later years, immigrant laborers. But these structures w
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This is Laurel Valley Plantation, a former sugar plantation in southern Louisiana. Before emancipation, this site relied primarily on enslaved Black labor. The cabins still standing today were built to house enslaved people and their families who worked the fields, mills, and surrounding land. After the Civil War, the plantation continued operating and later employed a mix of free laborers, including local Creole and Acadian workers and, in later years, immigrant laborers. But these structures w
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Life on a Colonial Sugar Plantation
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#DYK how sugar was made on Louisiana plantations? ➡️ Enslaved field workers cut, trimmed, and loaded the cane. ➡️ Enslaved cart drivers transported it to the mill. ➡️ Enslaved mill teams fed stalks into grinders. ➡️ Enslaved boiling crews reduced the juice in kettles until it reached the "striking point," where it began to crystallize. ➡️ Enslaved coopers packed the raw sugar into barrels to ship out across the world. Every step demanded so much labor that enslavers constantly sought to "replace
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#DYK how sugar was made on Louisiana plantations? ➡️ Enslaved field workers cut, trimmed, and loaded the cane. ➡️ Enslaved cart drivers transported it to the mill. ➡️ Enslaved mill teams fed stalks into grinders. ➡️ Enslaved boiling crews reduced the juice in kettles until it reached the "striking point," where it began to crystallize. ➡️ Enslaved coopers packed the raw sugar into barrels to ship out across the world. Every step demanded so much labor that enslavers constantly sought to "replace
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The Nottoway Plantation, the largest surviving antebellum plantation home in the U.S., has been lost to fire. Built in 1859 in Louisiana by enslaved Black individuals for sugar planter John Randolph, the estate later transitioned into a "resort" hosting weddings, events, and tours. | In Memory of Corey Donaldson
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The Nottoway Plantation, the largest surviving antebellum plantation home in the U.S., has been lost to fire. Built in 1859 in Louisiana by enslaved Black individuals for sugar planter John Randolph, the estate later transitioned into a "resort" hosting weddings, events, and tours. | In Memory of Corey Donaldson
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