Whitney Plantation

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-13-15
  

  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."

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  4-8-15
  

  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?"

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-26-15
  

  NYT Magazine profiles the first slavery museum in the US

  It opened in Louisiana in December.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  1-17-15
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The New Orleans Advocate
  10-14-14
  

  First and only slavery museum to open in Louisiana

  It will be housed in the Whitney Plantation.