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John Burnside was a native of Ireland. After immigrating to the United States he purchased the Houmas Plantation. The Houmas Plantation was an already existing entity famous for once having its previous owner fight a duel on the property. However, under Burnside’s tenure, he turned it into the largest working plantation in the state of Louisiana.

By the year of his death, Burnside owned ten separate plantations. John Burnside owned and enslaved over 750 black human beings on the Houmas Plantation. The Houmas still stands and has even been used as a shooting location for a number of films, despite the atrocities committed there. Some films include Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Mandigo, and most recently an episode of The Bachelor was filmed there in 2017.