This is Laurel Valley Plantation, a former sugar plantation in southern Louisiana. Before emancipation, this site relied primarily on enslaved Black labor. The cabins still standing today were built to house enslaved people and their families who worked the fields, mills, and surrounding land. After the Civil War, the plantation continued operating and later employed a mix of free laborers, including local Creole and Acadian workers and, in later years, immigrant laborers. But these structures w
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At Laurel Valley Plantation in Thibodaux, Louisiana the historic cabins — the enslaved quarters — were built using local timber, especially cypress wood. Cypress was chosen because it’s naturally resistant to rot and insects, which helped these structures survive for over a century of Louisiana’s humid climate and many hurricanes.  Historically, the cabins fall into a couple of different types: the older Creole-style cabins from the mid-1800s and the shotgun-style tenant houses from the late 18
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At Laurel Valley Plantation, the slave homes were built in the mid-1800s from cypress cut straight from the surrounding swamps, raised slightly off the ground to survive flooding and rot. They were simple, cramped structures, often one or two rooms meant to hold entire families. After emancipation, these same houses did not disappear. They were reused by Black sharecroppers and later by immigrant laborers, including Irish, Italian, and Chinese workers brought in to sustain the sugar industry. So
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Laurel Valley Plantation has had a long line of owners, but what makes it different from most Southern plantations is continuity. The land changed hands, but sugar production and labor control never truly stopped. The plantation began in the early 1800s under Étienne de Boré, a pivotal figure in Louisiana history. De Boré is often credited with proving granulated sugar could be produced commercially in Louisiana, helping turn sugar into one of the state’s most profitable and brutal industries. U
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For the record: enslaved Africans didn’t choose to be shackled, torn from their families, then bought and sold in the U.S. only to be tortured by slave owners. And contrary to Kanye's belief, some fought back. | The Root
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"The stones in Laurel Grove South mark the graves of Savannah's most prominent black citizens and oldest black families; they honor black war heroes; and tell the sad stories of courageous and enterprising slaves. 'This cemetery is a historic gem,' 'There is no source that holds as much black history.' " -WW Law. | Savannah Black History
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