The enslaved population soared, quadrupling over a 20-year period to 125,000 souls in the mid-19th century. New Orleans became the Walmart of people-selling.
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sits on the edge of the mighty Mississippi River, about fi ve miles east by way of the river’s bend from the French Quarter, and less than a mile down from the Lower Ninth Ward, where Hurricane Katrina and the failed levees destroyed so many black lives. It is North Ameri-ca’s largest sugar refi nery, making nearly two billion pounds of sugar and sugar products annually. Those ubiquitous four-pound yellow paper bags emblazoned with the company logo are produced here at a rate of 120 bags a minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week during operating season. The United States makes about nine million tons of sugar annual-ly, ranking it sixth in global pro-duction. The United States sugar industry receives as much as $4 billion in annual subsidies in the form of price supports, guaranteed crop loans, tariff s and regulated imports of foreign sugar, which by some estimates is about half the price per pound of domestic sugar. Louisiana’s sugar-cane industry is by itself worth $3 billion, generating an estimated 16,400 jobs.
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n 1795, Étienne de Boré, a New Orleans sugar planter, granulated the fi rst sugar crystals in the Loui-siana Territory. With the advent of sugar processing locally, sugar plan-tations exploded up and down both
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