The four of is woke up refreshed and ready to rock! We headed oit to the Evergreen plantation for a tour. I jad a mechanic coming to the boat to pull out the leaking pump, so we shall see how that goes.
Once we found the plantation, and purchased tour tickets, got to wander around the area waiting for the tour to start. Lots of interesting history at this place. First thing, what's the difference between a farm amd plantation: farm plants multiple crops, plantation just one. Treatment of slaves; in Louisiana the wealth of the plantation was measured in value of slaves, as well as crop. In this state, slaves were treated well, as the owners depended on the expertise they brought to the fields to get maximum crop yield. Here the crop is mostly sugar cane. Over half the harvesters were either white, Creole, or freed Negros. A Creole was a coloured person that was born in Louisiana. Many of the black freemen were enticed to move from differant islands because of their expertise in growing amd cutting sugar cane. They were well paid, and were basically the "tradesman" class of that era. Two or three slaves lived in fairly comfortable cabins behind the plantations and it was not unusual to have White sharecropper families living beside the slave cabins. They worked 5 1/2 days a week, with Saturday afternoon and Sunday off. This was stipulated by the Louisiana government. They were paid bonuses for good crops, amd could actually purchased their freedom this way. Many did, and stayed on as freemen. It certainly changed my understanding of slavery here. In other states, growing cotton, it was a lot more brutal.
The picture is of the slave homes.