African American History
Labor and Farming at Oakland Plantation
French Colonial Times
Labor and Farming from 1803 - 1860
After the Civil War
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html
American Memories http://www.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Natchitoches African American Genealogy Records http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lanatchi/ngl.htm
Did You Know?
Oakland plantation’s first cash crops were tobacco and indigo, followed by cotton in the 1800s. According to family tradition, the Prud’hommes were the first family west of the Mississippi River to farm cotton on a large scale.