Laura Plantation, St. James Parish, Louisiana (photo)
{"Image ImageDescription": "829300 Laura Plantation, St. James Parish, Louisiana (photo); (add.info.: Built 1804. Each cabin held two families and had a chicken house and/or pigpen and vegetable garden. In the decades before the Civil War, the slave quarters consisted of 69 cabins, communal kitchens, an infirmary, and several water wells along the same road. Guillaume Duparc's sugar farming complex was originally called l'Habitation Duparc. By the 1850s, the plantation employed 195 workers, 175 of whom were slaves.); .", "Image Artist": "\u00a9 Jean Pierre Courau", "Image Copyright": "Bridgeman Images"}