Photocopy of c. 1922 photograph of Wilson J. Lepine family posed in a cane cart with plantation cooks standing in foreground.

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

Photocopy of c. 1922 photograph of Wilson J. Lepine family posed in a cane cart with plantation cooks standing in foreground. — This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States.

Image of Black people working for potential descendants of Etienne De Bore.

From Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, 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…