The Homes of the Planters – Tours in Historic Louisiana –

“Foreword.
Whether restored and thriving or succumbing to the claims of water and the luxuriant vegetation, the plantation houses of Louisiana display the legendary wealth and at the same time the exemplary ruin of cotton lords. These sumptuous vestiges of the Old South bear testimony to the splendor that prevailed before the four-year Civil War between the southern slave states and those of the abolitionist North. …”