The “Big House” plantation home built from cypress trees hewn by slaves, at the Whitney Plantation slavery museum near New Orleans, LA. (Photo by Marla Jo Fisher/SCNG) The Whitney Plantation ...

At Whitney Plantation, one of the antebellum estates that line the Great River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the architectural centerpiece is a Creole-style main house where hand ...

about 50 miles upriver from New Orleans. And they say their enslaved ancestors helped to construct this Creole plantation house 230 years ago for a German planter and slave owner named Jean ...

I was on my way to Whitney Plantation, a museum in Wallace, La., that is unlike any other between New Orleans ... of slaves’ stories. A sister was taken many nights to the Big House by her ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. - About a dozen grand Southern mansions remain intact in New Orleans Plantation ... farmer's house. That's Brad's favorite cottage, where he stayed while filming "12 Years a Slave." ...

In January 1811, 500 armed slaves ... in New Orleans were making their usual preparations for Mardi Gras. Plantation owners were planning all-night parties, and the women of the house were looking ...

The “Big House” plantation home built from cypress trees hewn by slaves, at the Whitney Plantation slavery museum near New Orleans, LA. (Photo by Marla Jo Fisher/SCNG) The Whitney Plantation ...