The Grove House

Scattered along many of Louisiana’s rivers and bayous are majestic, historical homes built during a time of Southern prosperity. In the South, these homes and surrounding property often called plantations, were the product of middle to upper class slave-owning planters. Central Louisiana is home to a plantation that is “the oldest standing structure” in this area. During a recent visit to Kent House Plantation, I learned of the history, operations, and current events that help to keep the past alive.

In all aspects of life, women are pressured to be someone they are not. They are put in situations that force them to chose a path of life. In “The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza is forced to think about leaving Mango Street in the future, because she is surrounded by women who are pushing her to become an adult.

John Laurence Manning (1816-1819) built Millford plantation, he was the son of Elizabeth Peye Richardson and Governor Richard I. Manning of South Carolina. John L. Manning was later governor himself, and he later married Susan

When I grow up, I want to be a black gum tree. Black gum trees are known for their internal strength. Instead of dwelling on outward beauty, they spend more time focusing on their inner growth and developing their core. Only after they have achieved this goal can they produce beautiful fruits that draw animals near to them. Any surfaces that the berries touch are stained as to say, “I was here and made a permanent difference.” After they have utilized their outward influences, they use their internal scars and hollow places to protect the animals surrounding around it. If human lives were to reflect the concepts of the black gum tree, governments, individuals, and communities would be radically transformed. While this is a beautiful image,

When first coming to this country as a Hispanic American you may face a lot of difficulties and find more problems than the average white American. Hispanic people go through different adversities and have trouble overcoming them. In The House on Mango Street the main character Esperanza is the one that narrates the story, she explains what it is like to live on Mango Street. She shows the readers that living on Mango Street is perceived as a terrible area, if one were looking from the outside in. But those that live there feel that they live in fair living conditions. The fact is most of the people who live on Mango Street don 't know what it 's like to live outside of mango street. In the story, they show a lifestyle that most Hispanic people deal with especially the ones that come to America and have to figure out how to make ends meet. In The House on Mango Street, the novel has many themes and problems, such as gender inequality, stereotypes, and language barriers. With short stories like "Aria" and "the myth of Latin Woman," a solution is always found. Sometimes there is a simple solution and other times, it is not so easy to find, or there 's just no solution to solving the characters problems and they are still trying to look for results.

Laurel Valley Village Plantation located at 595 Hwy. 308, Thibodaux, LA 70301 in Lafourche, Parish is a museum of the history of farming sugar cane. I visited the museum on April 26, 2016 and viewed the past as if it still sits in the present. The land that Laurel Valley Plantation sits on originally belonged to a Mr. Etienne Boudreaux. He received the land as a grant in 1783.The main plantation house was burned down by Union soldiers in the Battle of Lafourche Crossing on June 20th through the 21st of June 1863. Joseph W. Tucker purchased the land and surrounding lands in 1832. Mr. Tucker was one of many plantation owners in the south that owned slaves and by 1850 had 162 slaves maintaining his fields at Laurel Valley. The plantation switched owners several times, but in 1915 Mr. J. W. Lepine the current owner invented a tractor that enabled him to plant faster than the use of mules and slaves.

George Ella Lyon is a storyteller and that can be seen throughout her amazing collection of poems in the piece Many Storied House. The reader is able to experience everything with the family as it happens through the halls of George Ella’s family home. Lyon takes the reader through a range of emotion with the narrator. George Ella brings so many personal issues and hardships to light for the reader to walk alongside her down the hallways of her childhood. The style that Lyon uses, allows the reader to experience the emotions felt by her during these parts of her life. Weather is be her parents marriage issue or her own struggles with suicide and sexual abuse. We get to explore the different personalities and

“Plantation Life” told by Rachel Adams. Rachel was born into slavery in Putman County close to Eatonton, Georgia. Rachel had a mother and father but her father was sold when she was a baby. Her mom’s job was to weave clothes and many times Rachel got to wear the clothes. Rachel grew up with 17 children and only one of them being a boy. They lived in small log cabins, their beds and pillows were made from old hay. Rachel says as children they were fed cornbread and potlicker, adults were fed meat, greens, and cornbread. Marse Lewis Little and Miss Sallie were the owners. Marse Lewis was kind to his slaves. The overseer, however, was cruel and if they didn’t do what he wanted, they would be whipped. Slaves were also whipped if they didn’t do their task in a certain amount of time. Some slaves learned how to read and write while others didn’t. Rachel

The development process of the Bulow Plantation, would commence with a wealthy merchant from Charleston, South Carolina. Charles Wilhelm Bulow at the prime age of 41 would obtain the land from his father; the plantation would begin its development at this time. In August of 1821, to allow for the initial part of development, Charles's brother would send slaves to help him cultivate the plantation. His brother

Founded in 1651 by Englishman, Major John Boone, Boone Hall is renowned for its lovely gardens

The state of Georgia began in 1733. The coast along the Altamaha River was not much more than just a tidal swamp and mud. The early Spanish settlers named this section of marshland the Guale Territory. There was not much incentive to develop the coastal marshes because the original Georgia grant limited each family to 50 acres and prohibited the use of slave workers (Sullivan 124). Therefore, large plantations found in South Carolina and Virginia were not available to the Georgia Colony. The Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation is relatively new, historically speaking, because of Georgia’s long history. This once beautiful plantation represents the history and culture of Georgia’s coast. The estate began its journey through history known as Broadface.

The city of Springfield and its establishment was indeed a city on the hill, where three rivers met causing the perfect location for a new established plantation. After the brutal war between

My honest opinion towards this plantation is to not go they aren’t prepared for anything they think that natural fortalities is gonna protect them from all the neighboring countries solid and strong armies. I wouldn't want to move to this plantation because they rely on god to do everything for them they think that they can just sit and wait for miracles to happen which that isn’t how it goes, you gotta be prepared for the worst at all times not waiting for someone to do that for it's just pure laziness to me. I think the first thing they should do is build up and establish their military before they ever start building up their buildings and establishing the settlement to be suitable for living. They are counting on god to just magically

Barrington Hall mentions about the white planter class with no mention of slaves. Basically, what the family did for a living, how it was built and brief aspects of what the house has to offer such as an icehouse and barn. The Bulloch Hall also mainly talks about the family history behind the house; however, it does mention that on the grounds there are slave cabins and carriage houses. Lastly, the Smith Plantation again mainly talks about the white planter class, the struggling times the family went through; however, it does mention briefly about the slaves and how there was 10 outbuildings and many were slave quarters. Overall, I wish they would mention more about the history of slavery among these plantations because that is an important part of history that is being left out. Modlin (2011) mentions how, “The lack of historical empathy created for the enslaved lies in contrast to the way in which many guides work to make the lives of the planter family come alive for tourists, offering dramatic accounts of the

Religion is a state of who you are. It signifies a person 's mental activities as well as their physical attributions to the world that surrounds them. Religion is a form of state that distinguish between different types of groups and cultures. While in a specific religious group, one must abide by all the rules and commit to what the religion has to offer. It is known that when a person disobeys their religious they get looked at as an outsider, or just as a person from another religious group. In This Blessed House written by Jhumpa Lahiri, she expresses how religion can be the cause of destroying a perfect romantic relationship. The couple in the story, Sanjeev and his wife Tanima, also known as Twinkle are both