Well, they would have to learn how to survive and farm for themselves for the first few decades starting off though when establishing a colony though, right? Heck, they would be learning that from the Amerindians.
And yeah, they are traders and artisans... I don't think they are aristocrats though.
I am skeptical that we would see the equivalent of the British planter class over in La Floride. After all, how would we exactly get the people who can afford these plantations in the first place, especially as noted above, Huguenots would be traders and artisans who would have to learn to farm. I doubt we would have wealthy French Catholics move into the La Floride with that sort of money to be able to do so nor would they last too long there since I imagine the Huguenots may find it as antithetical to the establishment of them being there plus as a threat to their sovereignty.
I don't know if the French would institute a land pension program that would see the rise of soldiers and the like get the money needed... And I doubt that since basically since one of the last updates noted Huguenot rebellons in the 1620s so that makes the chance of getting that sort of wealth and land ownership in La Floride even less likely. It would be business as usual, which doesn't seem to include slavery or plantations here...
Eh it depends on what though with the attention.
And no, I don't think it would be the same.
While Puritan influence would remain in the Thirteen Colonies, especially in New England, it wasn't exclusively just Puritans. Many more and more people would come in over time, especially the wealthy folk that would actually be able to afford slaves in the numbers needed to make profit. This how we would get the planter system would be established over in the British cololnies. Heck, it was the wealthy folk who founded the plantations and could maintain it.
And as I noted above, I find it very unlikely that the Huguenots, the people who are uneasy terms with and where there were several rebellions in the 1620s, would be able to get the money or so on needed for it.
Hell, the French nobility and thepeople with money would likely focus that capital over on the Caribbean islands for the purposes of sugar and the like, especially overseen by French Catholics and so on, likely setting up for stuff like Haiti to happen.
But for La Floride... alot would need to happen for that to happen given the circumstances and assuming that it will happen seems like it's being done for the sake of mirroring or parallels rather than looking at the various elements and trends.
The Spanish and Portuguese afforded it with all the ill-gotten gold and silver they took from one and a half continents and brought in slaves after they hit a wall with the native populations that they killed with mining operations and other stuff.
The British had their own special system of bringing in people and establishing matters along with well, how they made their planter class.
From my admittingly limited research, the first African-descended slaves into Louisiana (as an example) was brought in 1706. And was done so by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, a French colonial administrator in New France and who would become the governor of French Louisiana. And really this grew only in 1709 thanks to the French financier, Antoine Crozat, Marquis du Châtel, who was able to finance bringing in the slaves over into Louisiana in the first place.
While La Floride is closer and would probably be bigger by that point, the previous established issues with the Huguenots and so on would make it pretty difficult for those sort of factors to come in. At most, I could see like indentured servents or maybe transfers from the West Indies colonies, but even then, I do not know how likely that will be. Like I said, the Huguenots would likely not be afforded that same level or opportunity to get it because of the various factors going in and said factors continuing in the future. Even if some owners came in and so on, they'd like would be Catholic and thus would not be on good terms with the people there. Heck, I imagine a sort of culture of resistance to grow with the Huguenots and thus I do not see many of them getting the sort of planter status.
This was a pretty nice discussion and would like to apologize to @PGSBHurricane if for causing trouble or anything like that. ^^;
Sources:
Planter class - Wikipedia
Louisiana - Wikipedia
History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia
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