July 17, 1872

ASSUMPTION, Louisiana

African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Slavery

With the end of slavery, the large sugar plantation of Louisiana suffered major setbacks in output. Slavery had powered the profitable sugar industry in the Delta region, but with its abolition, many planters were left with huge plantations and acres of fertile land, but no labor to cultivate them. Soon, many Southerners realized this trend and began to sell pieces of their land so that a network...