Imagine three 4lb balls around your neck with bells inside. On this particular plantation, the owner was big on punishment…he used noise making neck restraints. Not allowed to live with them but could be dead with them.īefore you enter the house, there’s a list of slaves who lived here including their age and how much they were purchased for. The majority of the slaves are buried under the Levees and water. Over 120,000 bricks on 2,000+ acres of land (this place was huge.) The clay used for the bricks came from the Mississippi River.
The owner of this particular plantation had it built by slaves for 3 years. I honestly thought I knew everything about slavery.
I just left a plantation tour in Louisiana.
