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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 ...
Marianne Celeste Dragon (1777–1856) was a wealthy mixed-race creole slave owner during the Spanish Louisiana. Joseph Davis (1784–1870), eldest brother of Jefferson Davis and one of the wealthiest antebellum planters in Mississippi, he enslaved at least 345 people on his Hurricane Plantation. [89]
Horace Lawson Hunley (brother-in-law) Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798 – 1875) was one of the owners of the most land and slaves in the southern United States before the American Civil War. He owned sixteen plantations, mostly in Louisiana, and had large landholdings in Texas. He also invested money in projects in which he saw potential.
John Lyons (Louisiana) John Lyons (b. c. 1822 – September 23, 1864) was a carpenter, bridge builder, cotton-plantation owner, and steamship captain of Louisiana, United States. [1] Lyons is best known today as the enslaver of Peter of the scourged back, who escaped to Union lines in 1863, [2] and whose whip-scarred body ultimately became a ...
History. Slave owners included a comparatively small number of people of at least partial African ancestry in each of the original Thirteen Colonies and later states and territories that allowed slavery; [2][3] in some early cases, black Americans also had white indentured servants. It has been widely claimed that an African former indentured ...
Martin Donatto was a Free Black slave owner who owned 70 slaves in 1830. [3] It is located at 8343 Louisiana Highway 182 near Opelousas, Louisiana, about a quarter mile off the highway. [2] It is a single-story French Creole plantation house with Federal details. It has also been known as the August Donato House.
Jones–Liddell feud. The Jones–Liddell feud (1847–1870) also known as the Liddell–Jones feud or the Black River War was a warring dispute between two prominent families from Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It resulted in the death of at least six people, with other estimates suggesting as many as fourteen.
François-Gabriel "Valcour" Aime (1797–1867) was an American sugar planter, slave owner, and pioneer in the large-scale refining of sugar. Known as the "Louis XIV of Louisiana," he was reputedly the wealthiest person in the South. Aime owned a plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana, called the St. James Refinery Plantation, but it became known as ...