Jean-Étienne Boré
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The French introduced sugarcane to Louisiana around 1700. However, the crop didn't become popular until Jean Étienne Boré invented a new system for processing sugar in 1795. Using Caribbean techniques, Boré perfected a way of processing Louisiana sugarcane into granulated sugar.
Louisiana became the center of the sugar industry in the United States. So important was sugar to the state's economy that many planters described Boré as the "savior of Louisiana."
