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About 225 year old oak trees grow along the path to the big house at the Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, La., Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. The trees were brought in between 1820 and 1840 with slave labor.

Book a tour to Oak Alley or Laura Plantation from New Orleans. Laura Plantation, on the other hand, is a restored historic ...

If history -- antebellum history, specifically -- is the real religion of the South, then plantations are the region's churches.

Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie offers self-guided tours of slave cabins, and, based on interest, they hope to begin guided tours soon. Information panels teach visitors about the small cabins ...

It (Oak Alley) has a way of doing that to someone.” After spending many months making cosmetic repairs, the plantation opened up for public tours in 1976 Before then, tours of Oak Alley were a ...

Finally, I made my way to the Oak Alley Plantation. There’s no tour of the slave cabins, but they have been turned into a walkable exhibit that features the devices used to torture enslaved men ...