Slave Plantations In Thibodaux Louisiana. Along historic river road, nestled underneath canopies of ancient oak trees, there’s a historic plantation that everyone should take the time to see. And most prominent families of the old south, as influential in louisiana as were the byrds, the carters, and the lees in virginia.
Settled sometime in the 18 th century, it was incorporated into a town in 1830. The village included over 105 structures of which over 60 buildings of which includes a schoolhouse, sugar mills, store, and blacksmith shop among other numerous slave homes and outhouses remain today. Tucker established laurel valley sugar plantation along bayou lafourche in thibodaux on land he purchased from etienne boudreaux, an acadian exile who had settled there in 1790.
Oak alley plantation in vacherie, la, and the myrtles plantation in st.
One of the things i found very interesting, and didn't learn in louisiana history, was that there were chinese laborers working on the plantation in 1880 (and earlier). With the farmland, came huge plantations and adjoining structures for the property owners and their slaves. Louisiana's river road parallels the east and west banks of the mississippi river for about 70 miles (about 100 miles of actual road) through the louisiana parishes of st. Named after a popular plantation owner, it might not come as a surprise that—in addition to sugar cane—the town also raised quite a bit of racial tension back in the day.