SUNUP TO SUNDOWN

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SUNUP TO SUNDOWN
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A visit to the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port
Allen reveals artifacts from slave quarters to
depict the day to day life of slaves on sugar
cane plantations.
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Homemade and handmade

• Slaves used mortar and pestle to grind corn for
  meal.
• Cornmeal was eaten, but cornhusks had other
  uses.

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Daybreak

• Slaves used gourds as containers for food and
  water.
• Most cabins had a fireplace for heating and
  cooking.

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Midday

• Short break for eating a bit of bread and meat
  ---in season.
• Kettles were used for cooking and washing.

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Back to the field

• After a break for lunch, slaves went back to work
  in the hot sun of the cane fields.
• The machete was the main tool of the cane field
  workers.

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Evenin is my time in the garden
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Or time for thinking of freedom from along the
banks of the Mississippi.
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Discuss life after 1868 for sugar cane workers in
south Louisiana.