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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 ...
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.
Slavery in Louisiana (3 P) P. People enslaved in Louisiana (16 P) Plantations in Louisiana (3 C, 35 P) Pages in category "History of slavery in Louisiana"
[4] [5] With approx 750 slaves on it and Burnside's many surrounding plantations, it was the center of the largest slave holding in Louisiana prior to the American Civil War. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] During the war, plans were made to use the plantation house as a headquarters for Union general Benjamin Franklin Butler , who governed New Orleans for about ...
Other plantations, such as the Whitney and Evergreen plantations, also in Louisiana, reference a slavery database on their websites. One of them, the Louisiana Slave Database, referenced by the ...
Laura Plantation is a restored historic Louisiana Creole plantation on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Vacherie, Louisiana. [2] Formerly known as Duparc Plantation, it is significant for its early 19th-century Créole-style raised big house and several surviving outbuildings, including two slave cabins.
At 1811 Kid Ory Historic House in St. John, a slave revolt was born, and a musician grew up NOLA.com article 17 August 2021; Former Woodland Plantation now serves as the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House March 2021, Preservation in Print; Kid Ory Finally Gets the Encore He Deserves Smithsonian, January 2021
Twenty-three slave ships brought black slaves to Louisiana in French Louisiana alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730. [8] Between 1723 and 1769, most African slaves imported to Louisiana were from modern-day Senegal, Mali, Congo, and Benin and many thousands being imported to Louisiana from there.