Benjamin Laurent Millaudon

Benjamin Laurent Millaudon (1786–1868) was an wealthy merchant, real-estate investor, and railroad developer of early 19th-century New Orleans.

[2] In additional to his mercantile investments, he owned huge and lucrative sugar plantations worked by hundreds of slaves.

"[4] 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.

The result was that H.C. Millaudon was killed, and several people were wounded before 150 slaves self-emancipated and left the plantation for good en masse.

[6] After the war, investors from Boston who had purchased the plantation relatively cheap hired Chinese immigrant laborers to take the slaves' place.