After the cutters went on strike in 1887, the state militia and white vigilantes retaliated by killing about 60 suspected ...

The sugar plantation plant was burning ... 2017 due to the high cost of processing the cane sugar and competition from the higher-volume output of foreign processors. Despite the plant’s closing, the ...

Former sugar cane plantations were ... amid other words in French on yet another court record. Some of the runaway slaves faced trial at Destrehan Plantation. Charron pointed out where that ...