These are the kinds of insights that Whitney visitors learn as they tour around the remaining 40 acres of the plantation. At the Whitney Plantation slavery museum near New Orleans, LA.

In this July 14, 2017 photo, the main plantation house is seen through the bars of a jail, similar to one's used for slaves, at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La. Owner John Cummings opened ...

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These are the kinds of insights that Whitney visitors learn as they tour around the remaining 40 acres of the plantation. At the Whitney Plantation slavery museum near New Orleans, LA.

Of the 600 plantations scattered throughout the South, only one, the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, focuses entirely on the experiences of the enslaved.

The Whitney Plantation, also along the River Road, tells the same tale — but from the enslaved people’s point of view. And it’s a fascinating one. Originally founded in 1752, the plantation went ...