Laura Plantation provides a cultural experience unlike any other in the United States. Explore the rigors of 200 years of daily life, along with the sobering experience of slavery as it happened at one historic site on the banks of the Mississippi River in the middle of New Orleans plantation country. In this podcast, Joseph Dunn, director of public relations and marketing, will be your guide into the Creole world, offering you compelling stories of the people who lived, worked, and died at this unique historic site. Real History. About real people.
Season 3: Episode 1: Union soldiers, the First Baptist Church of Vacherie, & the Sweet Spot of Reconstruction
In this episode, Joseph and Katy chat once more with Dr. Brittany Cochran Jones, a member of the Laura Plantation Descendant Community about the role of formerly enslaved men from Laura Plantation who fought in the U.S. Colored Troops, their role in founding the First Baptist Church of Vacherie, and the enduring legacy of leadership in the descendant community.
19 Jul 2024
Season 2: Episode 2: A Chat with Descendant Community member Dr. Brittany Cochran Jones
In this episode, Joseph chats with Dr. Brittany Cochran Jones, a member of the Laura Plantation Descendant Community.
Dr. Cochran Jones shares the journey of discovery that led her to her enslaved ancestor Madison Gray and her family's subsequent participation in the founding of local First Baptist Church.
15 Feb 2024
Season 2: Episode 1: Clément Lagouarde et la Tribu Natchitoches
Descendant d'un militaire autochtone francophone vétéran de la Première Guerre mondiale, le comédien français Clément Lagouarde est ajourd'hui l'un des chefs de la tribu Natchitoches de Louisiane. Il parle de son ancêtre au parcours ambiguë, de la découverte de son appartenance au peuple Natchitoches et de sa double culture franco-amérindienne.
Regardez son dernier court-métrage ici : https://www.festivalnikon.fr/index.php/en/video/2023/2862
The French actor Clément Lagouarde is descended from a French-speaking Native American who fought in World War I France. Today, he is one of the chiefs of Louisiana's Natchitoches Tribe. He talks about his ancestor's ambiguous history, the discovery of his relationship to the Natchitoches people, and the duality of his French and Native American cultures.
3 Oct 2023
Season 1, Episode 14: A Chat with Dr. Angel Adams Parham
Bonjour everyone and welcome back to the Laura Plantation podcast. In this episode, Joseph will be talking with Dr. Angel Adams Parham about her research into the Haitian refugee community in early 19th century New Orleans, how slavery and enslavement are represented at plantations and in urban spaces, and the importance of preserving and talking about buildings and stories that reveal Louisiana’s connection to Africa and African history.
Dr. Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC (https://iasculture.org/research)) at the University of Virginia. Before moving to Virginia, she spent a number of years at Loyola University in New Orleans where she chaired the African and African American Studies program.
She works in the area of historical sociology, engaging in research and writing that examine the past in order to better understand how to live well in the
present and envision wisely for the future.
To learn more about Dr. Parham’s work, visit her website at www.angelparham.com
16 Jun 2023
Season 1, Episode 13: Juneteenth and the 80th United States Colored Infantry
Background on Juneteenth and the story of men born into slavery at Laura Plantation who enlisted in the 80th United States Colored Infantry and were among the first to celebrate Juneteenth in Texas on June 19, 1866. Discussion of violence in Texas during Reconstruction and the unique role that the 80th USCI played. This episode is in memory of Bernard Stewart, Auguste James, Zeno Joseph, Nathaniel Eglan and John Bull, Civil War veterans, freedom fighters, and soldiers in the 80th USCI.
31 May 2023
Uncovering the Real People and Real History of Laura, Part 1: The First Primary Sources Found
Historian Katy Morlas Shannon and a special guest discuss why Laura Plantation was restored and the discovery of the first primary source documents concerning the historic site. They explore how those key resources shaped the historical narrative and the storytelling approach taken in writing the tour and curating the historic structures that remained on the property. For more information about the early days of establishing Laura Plantation as a historic site and to hear from Norman Marmillion himself about the process, visit the following links:
The Original Slave Cabins: Why Laura Plantation was Saved - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLTsDyXvJDw)
Gallery Talk 2: Looking for Laura : September 5, 2017 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drl5qFeWaCE)
3 May 2023
Season 1, Episode 11: Steamboats
In this episode, Katy and Joseph talk about the importance of steamboats on the Mississippi River and their connection to Laura Plantation, including a steamboat accident that had a direct impact on the Duparcs and Locouls and the enslaved population on the plantation.
4 Apr 2023
Saison 1, Épisode 10 : Le Cahier de Lobel-Mahy (résumé en français)
Voici un premier supplément en français du podcast de la Plantation Laura.
Dans le dernier épisode en anglais enregistré avec Katy, nous avons évoqué ce que nous appelons “le cahier de Lobel-Mahy.”
Il s’agit effectivement d’un cahier de correspondance — une boîte d’envoi en quelque sorte –écrit à la main en français par Ivan de Lobel-Mahy, l’oncle par mariage de Laura. Dans ce cahier, de Lobel-Mahy détaille les destinataires, les dates et le contenu des lettres envoyées à ses différents amis, relations, et connaissances.
Les deux petits extraits, dont vous pourrez voir les images sur notre site web à https://www.lauraplantation.com/news/post/podcast-s1-e10-fr (https://www.lauraplantation.com/news/post/podcast-s1-e10-fr) nous donnent une fenêtre sur toutes sortes de détails sur la vie familiale, sociale et politique du mois d’octobre 1876.
4 Apr 2023
The Notebook of Ivan de Lobel-Mahy
Joseph and Katy talk about what we call “the Lobel-Mahy notebook.” It is indeed a correspondence book - a sort of outbox - written by hand in French by Ivan de Lobel-Mahy, Laura's uncle by marriage. In this notebook, de Lobel-Mahy details the recipients, dates and content of the letters sent to his various friends, relations and acquaintances. The two small excerpts, the images of which you can see on our website at https://www.lauraplantation.com/news/post/podcast-s1-e10, give us a window into all sorts of details about family, social, and political life in October 1876.
29 Mar 2023
The Locouls' French Quarter Mansion & Creole Life in New Orleans
In this episode, we compare and contrast the lives of Creoles on the plantation in the countryside and in their French Quarter mansions in New Orleans. We talk about the Locouls' Toulouse Street mansion, its significance as a status symbol, and some of the experiences Laura would have had in her grandmother's home. We also explore the impact of the Civil War, the diversity of the neighborhood, and the illegal activities surrounding the home.
22 Mar 2023
Clarisse Peterson, Hospital Keeper, and Clarisse Wilson, Community Leader
Sand Marmillion, Director and Curator of Laura Plantation, joins us to share the stories of two very significant enslaved women who lived and worked at Laura Plantation. Clarisse Peterson, an American slave who arrived on the plantation in adulthood and was in charge of tending to the sick and injured in the plantation hospital, and Clarisse Wilson, a Creole, born into slavery at Laura Plantation, who was involved in the founding of the Baptist Church, took in orphans, and acted as a mother figure in the community. We also touch upon the lives of their husbands, one of whom they shared (not simultaneously)! We compare and contrast their lives, note the changes that took place after the Civil War, and learn about one of their descendants, Freddie Keppard, a famous New Orleans jazz pioneer. #lauraplantation #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth #jazzhistory #jazz
15 Mar 2023
Creole Women and Education
In this episode we discuss the educational opportunities available to Creole women--both free and enslaved--and the way they evolved over time. These include convents, governesses, private schools, and public schools. Religion and language were key elements in the instruction of Creole women in the colonial and antebellum eras, but after the Civil War this would change. Formerly enslaved children and adults learned to read and write at schools established by the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War. With the end of Reconstruction, many of those educational opportunities came to an end. Not until 1952 did Black children growing up on Laura Plantation have access to a high school.
7 Mar 2023
Women and Property Rights in Louisiana
Laura Plantation was owned and operated by women at various times spanning four generations. Nanette Duparc took over after her husband’s death and established the business. Her daughter Elisabeth Locoul inherited the plantation during the Civil War and ran it until she donated the property to her children. After Emile Locoul’s death, his wife Desirée and their daughter Laura were instrumental in making decisions about the management of the plantation. How was this possible?
Louisiana’s legal system enabled Creole women to maintain a certain amount of autonomy after marriage. This episode explores the differences between Louisiana's legal system, based on civil law, and that present in the rest of the nation, based on common law, and the impact this had upon women.
28 Feb 2023
Women's History Month and International French Language Month
Joseph and Katy discuss Women's History Month topics, including enslaved women, Nanette's role in the early days of Laura Plantation, Louisiana exceptionalism in women's property laws, and social mores of different eras. They also touch upon International French Language Month and the significance of French not only to Louisiana's cultural heritage but also in the process of studying and researching all aspects of Louisiana history.
20 Feb 2023
Harry Minor
Harry Minor was one of two million enslaved individuals sold from the Upper South to the Lower South through the interstate slave trade. He was forcibly brought to Laura Plantation and made to assimilate into the Creole community. Hear his story, along with his own words, in this episode.
13 Feb 2023
The 1829 Donation + Lucy and Marius Jones
This episode is centered around the 1829 donation of the plantation. Nanette Duparc donated the plantation and seventy-seven enslaved people to her children, Louis, Flagy, and Elisabeth, and her son-in-law Raymond Locoul. The 1829 donation led to a corporation being founded, the Duparc Brothers and Locoul Plantation, and enslaved people became either owned by the company (mostly field hands, skilled laborers, and artisans) or privately owned by individual family members (mostly enslaved house servants). We will explore the lives of two of them---Lucy Moore Jones, enslaved as a house servant and nurse for the Locoul family, and her husband, Marius Jones, an enslaved laborer for the company who appears on the inventory made at the time of the 1829 donation.
6 Feb 2023
The 1808 Inventory
This episode is centered around the first people enslaved at Laura Plantation. When Guillaume Duparc died in 1808, an inventory was made of all of his property, including enslaved individuals. Learn about them and then listen to an in-depth story of Tantale, present on the 1808 inventory and who lived to see freedom.
6 Feb 2023
A Place Unlike Any Other
Laura Plantation provides a cultural experience unlike any other in the United States. Here you will find the difference that exemplifies Creole Louisiana. Explore the rigors of 200 years of daily life, along with the sobering experience of slavery as it happened at one historic site on the banks of the Mississippi River in the middle of New Orleans plantation country. In this podcast, historian Katy Morlas Shannon and Director of PR and Marketing Joseph Dunn will be your guides into the Creole world, offering you true, personal, compelling stories of the people who lived, worked, and died at this unique historic site. Real History. About real people.
In this episode, we provide a brief history of Laura Plantation, share our mission, and introduce many of the topics we will discuss in later episodes. Please visit www.lauraplantation.com to learn more and to plan your visit.
30 Jan 2023
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Laura Plantation provides a cultural experience unlike any other in the United States. Here you will find the difference that exemplifies Creole Louisiana. Explore the rigors of 200 years of daily life, along with the sobering experience of slavery as it happened at one historic site on the banks of the Mississippi River in the middle of New Orleans plantation country. In this podcast, Director of PR and Marketing Joseph Dunn will be your guide into the Creole world, offering you true, personal, compelling stories of the people who lived, worked, and died at this unique historic site. Real History. About real people.
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