Architecture
Alma Plantation
Alma Plantation is a working sugar plantation whose layout and structures provide details about a historic Louisiana vernacular architecture.
slave insurrections
slave insurrections Index
History
Slave Insurrections in Louisiana
Slavery existed in Louisiana from its earliest origins as a French colony through the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War. Slave insurrections, however, were unusual events.
History
Slavery in French Colonial Louisiana
As early as 1699, when Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville first began to develop the French colony of Louisiana, he petitioned the king to allow a slaving expedition to the west coast of Africa to procure captive laborers.
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