CSPAN3 American Artifacts March 26, 2016
And so right around the same time that that first sugar crop was being granulated, indigo was not really a viable crop anymore. So this plantation transitioned at some point after that by about 1805. It was planted in sugar and it remains planted in sugar till today. Sugar is still a Huge Industry in south louisiana and all around us our historic cane fields still planted in cane that is still sent off to the domino sugar refineries. So three generations in this plantation. Over the course of th...
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