Heidel originally grew indigo before his son Jean Jacques converted the plantation to sugar in the early 1800’s.
It was Jean Jacques who built the historic French Creole raised-style main house.
Some 350 slaves are recorded to have lived, sweated, toiled and beaten here.
In 1999, the plantation was bought by New Orleans lawyer named John Cummings.
There is another memorial dedicated to 107,000 people enslaved in Louisiana.
It was at Whitney Plantation where the 2012 Quentin Tarantino movieDjango Unchainedand the 2013 movie12 Years a Slavewere filmed.
Parts of the land are still used to grow sugarcane.
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