Visit antebellum plantations along the mississippi riverandglimpse into the grace grandeur and tragedy of early southern history on this six to eight hour tour from new orleans gain an understanding of the socioeconomic and cultural factors that gave rise to slavery and why it become such a powerful institution throughout the south learn how industries such asoil cotton sugar lumber indigo and citrusallowed new orleans to flourish into the city it is today and why it was such an impor