Intact slave cabins in the original location at the Evergreen Plantation.(Paul Ross - Photos by Paul Ross) Judy Davis conducts tours at Houmas House. ( Paul Ross - Photos by Paul Ross ) The museum ...

His mother, Victorine, a house slave at Evergreen, was 18 years old. Frederick Baconnais was born during the peak of the sugar cane harvest season at the Evergreen Plantation in Edgard, Louisiana.

His mother, Victorine, a house slave at Evergreen, was 18 years old. He was only two when she died. But Baconnais would name one of his daughters Victoria in remembrance of his mother.

We have focused on just one section of plantation homes in the Mississippi valley, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. There are other plantations scattered here and there. About 15 miles ...

Forest Whitaker plays the fiddle for Malachi Kirby in a scene in 'Roots' that was shot at the Evergreen Plantation in Edgard. ... a former sugar plantation with a main house dating to 1842.

He dwelled on Evergreen in particular because it is the only plantation in the Deep South that features multiple original, extant slave cabins — 22 of them, spread out over the grounds.

MURFREESBORO — What is now Evergreen Cemetery on Greenland Drive began as a slave burial ground for Oaklands Plantation in the mid-1800s. The cemetery officially began on May 30, 1872, when Oaklands ...

In a far corner of Evergreen Cemetery on Highland Avenue near Murfreesboro Police Department headquarters is an open field. It's lumpy in some places where the ground is visibly sunken. Beneath that ...