Unit 2: Plantation Tourism (TG3_gr2)

America’s Hard History

The document under study is an article published on the Condé Nast Traveler Website in 2021. It deals with what should be displayed in plantation museums. At first sight, people perceive plantations as a touristic activity that they would do on vacation. They would take pictures of the nice buildings. Some even would get married there. However, they prefer not to know about the real story of the plantation. Nevertheless, the goals of plantation museums should have an educational role and share the real stories that are hidden behind all those fairy tales. Besides, it is to commemorate the memories of the enslaved so that thus type of behavior will not happen again. In addition, we need to keep in mind that those lands had been stolen from the Indigenous community.

The text highlights the fact that plantations were places where black people had been raped, tortured and killed for hundreds of years.

The legacy of slavery has been hidden for too long, but it should not, it has to be exposed to the world. Now, in some plantations, it is displayed through the tools used to oppress the slaves, the chains, the cabins where they would live…

(We will continue the study of the text next time. Be ready!)

Homework: Learn the lesson.