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.
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