1.7: Sugar, Sugar
Jun 04, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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Episode description
The Louisiana economy collapses. Étienne de Boré figures how to make granulated sugar in Louisiana (just as the Haitian Revolution collapses San-Domingue sugar production). New Orleans area plantation owners profit.
READ MORE:
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette
https://64parishes.org/entry/spanish-colonial-louisiana
https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1655
SOUNDS:
French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri -- https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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