Whitney Plantation

The U.S. has 35,000 museums. Why is only one about slavery?

by John J. Cummings, III

"Here's why I opened the country's first slavery museum."

Whitney Plantation museum endowed by a wealthy Louisiana lawyer confronts painful history of American slavery

"I tell people when they say, 'Why is a white man involved in this?' I say, 'Don't you remember it was a white man that caused all this?"

NYT Magazine profiles the first slavery museum in the US

It opened in Louisiana in December.

Harsh world of slavery focus of Louisiana plantation museum

Unlike other plantation museums along the Great River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the newly opened and under-construction Whitney Plantation focuses squarely on the plight of slaves.

First and only slavery museum to open in Louisiana

It will be housed in the Whitney Plantation.