The Delta plantation system started in the 19th ... the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta ...

and by the early 1900s he controlled plantations exceeding 20,000 acres. LeRoy Percy. Library of Congress. LeRoy Percy may have been born into Mississippi Delta aristocracy, but by the time he ...

A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection following a multi ...

LATTE has been aboard the stunning Viking Mississippi as we ply the waters of the Might Mississippi between New Orleans, ...