The Slave Quarters

When the Haydels shifted from indigo to sugar in the early 1800s, the work needed far more enslaved hands. Today granite slabs on the site's Wall of Honor list everyone recorded as enslaved here, with origin, age and skills, drawn from original archives. Antioch Baptist Church, founded in 1868 by formerly enslaved people, was moved to the grounds in 1999 from about eight miles away. After 1865 many freed families stayed on as sharecroppers. Words from the Federal Writers' Project interviews with formerly enslaved people, recorded in the 1930s, are displayed outdoors.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — steps away
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Destrehan Plantation — 18 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Laurel Valley Village — 19 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 20 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.

More markers nearby

• Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall — steps away
• The Big House — steps away
• Colonial Sugars Refinery — 1.8 mi
• Colonial Sugars Refinery — 2.2 mi