Cast-iron sugar kettle with mill ruins

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

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View of cast-iron sugar kettle with mill ruins in background, from the Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation.

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…