Английская Википедия:Benjamin Laurent Millaudon
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Benjamin Laurent Millaudon (1786–1868) was an wealthy merchant, real-estate investor, and railroad developer of early 19th-century New Orleans.[1] Described as a "self-made tycoon," he had emigrated to the United States from Avignon, France, in about 1802.[2]
In additional to his mercantile investments, he owned huge and lucrative sugar plantations worked by hundreds of enslaved people.[2][3] A coastwise slave-ship manifest from 1837, held at the New-York Historical Society, lists "Lawrence Millaudon" and George Lane as the consignees of a shipment of 73 enslaved people sailing from Alexandria, Virginia, to New Orleans on the brig Isaac Franklin.[4] His railroad interests included cofounding the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad.[3] The 1856 steamship Laurent Millaudon was either named for him or built by him.[1]
Just before the American Civil War, Millaudon sold his million-dollar (in 1859 currency) sugar plantation to his son.[2] In 1862, there was a violent altercation involving whips, axes, and guns, between Henry Clement (H. C.) Millaudon, the overseer, and the enslaved people bound there; the result was the overseer was killed, and several people were wounded before 150 formerly enslaved people self-emancipated and left the plantation for good.[5] After the war, new investors hired Chinese immigrant laborers to take their place.[5]
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