WoodlandPlaqueminesSlaveCabinSugarKettle.JPG
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Slave cabin and sugar bowl from the Woodland Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. This image shows the sugar kettles that enslaved people commonly used.
This file appears in: Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation
Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation
In 1794, Étienne de Boré (1741-1820) forced enslaved men and women to convert his failing indigo fields into a sugar plantation. [4] This forced labor camp sat across the lower parts of today’s Audubon Park. The plantation history is memorialized…