Architecture

Alma Plantation
Alma Plantation is a working sugar plantation whose layout and structures provide details about a historic Louisiana vernacular architecture.
Alma Plantation is a working sugar plantation whose layout and structures provide details about a historic Louisiana vernacular architecture.
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.
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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