Cutting the cane on a sugar plantation near New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.

ID: 6158 ~ Source: WikiCommons and The New York Public Library. ~ Creator: Unknown ~ Date: 1899-1915

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

Cutting the cane on a sugar plantation near New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. — This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1927.

Black men cutting sugar cane on a plantation near New Orleans, LA.

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 struggles. This conversion was only made possible…