This is probably a review of the Whitney Plantation, which made news for being the first plantation whose tour focused on the real, very difficult, lives of enslaved people.
I grew up in south Louisiana, in a town named for a plantation, and this might come as a shock to a lot of you, but until Whitney, which opened in like 2010, all plantation tours were about the lives of the planters. Enslaved people were only mentioned tangentially and usually in relation to the slavers. Like "And often the very best slaves would help raise the children, and they got to work in the big house, which was quite a treat for them!"
Y'all don't even know. Whitney changed the game, but very few plantations have followed its lead.
Why should I care about the plantation owners? I'll give the biography of every plantation owner ever:
Every day, he'd wake up, sit on his ass all day while people around him toil, and he'd just get drunk, and occasionally, if he's in a bad mood, beat or r*pe a slave, until eventually, he died and his son did the same.
This is probably a review of the Whitney Plantation, which made news for being the first plantation whose tour focused on the real, very difficult, lives of enslaved people.
I grew up in south Louisiana, in a town named for a plantation, and this might come as a shock to a lot of you, but until Whitney, which opened in like 2010, all plantation tours were about the lives of the planters. Enslaved people were only mentioned tangentially and usually in relation to the slavers. Like "And often the very best slaves would help raise the children, and they got to work in the big house, which was quite a treat for them!"
Y'all don't even know. Whitney changed the game, but very few plantations have followed its lead.
Why should I care about the plantation owners? I'll give the biography of every plantation owner ever:
Every day, he'd wake up, sit on his ass all day while people around him toil, and he'd just get drunk, and occasionally, if he's in a bad mood, beat or r*pe a slave, until eventually, he died and his son did the same.
There, no tour necessary.