Louisiana plantation

A Louisiana plantation is a large agricultural estate in Louisiana, historically associated with the cultivation of sugar cane, cotton, or rice using enslaved African labor before the Civil War.

These estates typically featured a "big house" for the white planter family and slave quarters.

Today the term often refers to surviving antebellum properties, many now operating as museums or event venues—a use that generates controversy over how they present the history of slavery: They toured a Louisiana plantation on their honeymoon.