How Sweet It Is

ID: 6157 ~ Source: Image taken by Mary Niall Mitchell ~ Creator: Unknown ~ Date: 2021

This file appears in: The Boré Plantation: Sugar Production and its Impact on Slavery in the 19th Century

Historic Marker located within Audubon Park. This marker briefly describes the sugar making process.

This file appears in: The Boré Plantation: Sugar Production and its Impact on Slavery in the 19th Century

The Boré Plantation: Sugar Production and its Impact on Slavery in the 19th Century

By Taylor Lindner, edited by Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer

Today’s Audubon Park was once the location of the Boré Plantation. In the late eighteenth century, Étienne de Boré converted his plantation crop from indigo to sugar cane due to significant financial…