Unit 2: Plantation Museum (TleG3_gr2)

Untold Lives Focus

The document under study is a video from Visit New Orleans YouTube Channel, published in 2019. It is about the Whitney Plantation, located in Edgar-Wallace, Louisiana, nearby the Mississippi River. It was established in 1752. It sued to be a rice sugar and indigo plantation. It kept on working their productions of rice and sugar up to the 1970s.

The economic part was one of the main aspects of the plantation as it depended on the slave labor.

On this plantation, we learn about the enslaved people’s lives, from their place of origin, West Africa, to the slave trade and their daily lives on the plantation.  The Whitney Plantation is the only one in the state of Louisiana that tells the story of slavery form the perspective of the enslaved. The stories can be difficult to hear and the visits are emotional experiences for visitors. Moreover, through the pieces of artwork scattered on site, it also gives an immersive experience to the visitors.

To conclude, their actions is to show how the enslaved really lived and it will help people understand the current state of the race relations in America nowadays.

Homework: Learn the lesson.