This was an exceptional tour where we got a chance to understand a little bit of the history around the time of the civil war and slavery.. I have copied the info below from the website
Laura: A Creole Plantation offers a 70-minute tour that is based on 5,000 pages of documents from the French National Archives related to the free and enslaved families who lived here. Professional guides will share the compelling, real-life accounts of 7 generations of Laura Plantation’s Creole inhabitants. Discover what life was like for the plantation owners, women, slaves and children who once called this centuries-old, sugar cane farm their home.
With 11 structures listed on the National Register, Laura Plantation offers guests the chance to explore its newly restored Manor House, the formal and kitchen gardens, Banana-Land grove, and its authentic Creole cottages and slave cabins.
But perhaps Laura Plantation is best known for the West-African stories the home’s former slaves related to folklorist Alcée Fortier. Recorded at the slave cabins here in the 1870s, they were later popularized in English and became the “Tales of Br’er Rabbit.”
www.lauraplantation.com
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