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All posts tagged "River Road plantations"

Louisiana8 months ago

Every pecan in America traces back to one enslaved man’s hands in Louisiana
Louisiana11 months ago

The Creole women who defied 19th century Louisiana and ruled a plantation
Louisiana11 months ago

The Louisiana planter who moved 200 slaves to Texas to escape the Union in 1863
Louisiana11 months ago

His owner branded him like cattle – so he crippled Louisiana’s cruelest plantation
Louisiana11 months ago

A British flag scam trapped 753 slaves in this plantation – why Union troops couldn’t do anything
Louisiana12 months ago

The horrendous aftermath of America’s largest slave rebellion in 1800s Louisiana
Louisiana12 months ago

The day 200 slaves were freed and doomed Louisiana’s grandest plantation
Louisiana12 months ago

The slave rebellion that made Louisiana planters display human heads for miles