Unit 2: Plantation Tourism (TG3)
(At the following of what we did last time)
According to B.
Powers, visitors can learn about the real story of slavery and its impact on
today’s world. In fact, black people in America
are more arrested by the police and are the main victims of police brutality. It
shows how big an issue racism still is in the USA.
On
one hand, when the place does not reveal the truth, the
visitor’s experience is romanticized.
Indeed, the tour is focused on the nice architecture of the building and the
lives of the white landowners. Visitors will go away without knowing the real
stories that happened there as they had been through a nice whitewashed guided tour. They will leave thinking
it was a wonderful place and that people used to live a really nice life there.
On
the other hand, when visitors decide to go to a plantation that
presents how slaves were treated back in the day, guides should warn the
visitors about the harshness of they will
hear and see throughout the tour. This type of tour is obviously
to educate the visitors on one part of American history.
To
conclude, in order to not reproduce what happened in the past,
it is important to stay educated on the different events. These plantations are
used to set the record straight about the
history of America. Moreover, it helps people
understand better the racial tensions that still exist nowadays in the USA as a
result of slavery (Jim Crows, segregation, Civil Rights movement and Black
Lives Matter movement).
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