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LaBranche Plantation Dependency historical marker. The LaBranche Plantation Dependency House is located in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.From many accounts, LaBranche Plantation, also known as Barbarra Plantation, [2] in St. Rose, Louisiana, was one of the grandest on the German Coast until it was destroyed during the American Civil War.
Manifest of a coastwise slave shipment made from Baltimore to New Orleans by Hope H. Slatter, on the ship Scotia in September 1843 The first group of 66 out of the 73 souls aboard is organized by height; beginning with Author Goodhand, age 21, 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), ending with Caroline Potts, age nine, 3 ft 11 in (1.19 m); Caroline is the only person with the surname Potts on the manifest
The French Creole raised-style [2] [3] main house, built in 1790, is an important architectural example in the state.The plantation has numerous outbuildings or "dependencies": a pigeonnier or dovecote, a plantation store, the only surviving French Creole barn in North America (ca. 1790), a detached kitchen, an overseer's house, a mule barn, and two slave dwellings.
Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1]
The Dali was sailing under its own power with a full crew of 22 and six salvage experts, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a news release. Dali cargo ship leaves Baltimore for Virginia, nearly 3 months ...
Evolution of the enslaved population of the United States as a percentage of the population of each state, 1790–1860. Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions ...
The Justice Department sued the owner of container ship Dali for $100 million for ramming and toppling the Key Bridge in Baltimore.