plantations

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/6/2021
  

  Today's Culture Wars are Playing Out on Plantation Tours

  by Kelley Fanto Deetz

  "Museum professionals at plantations hear it all and must balance viewpoints that are diametrically opposed to one another, such as the romanticized notion of antebellum gentility and the constant fear of terror and violence of the enslaved."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/13/2021
  

  Plantation Planned Juneteenth Event that would Tell the Stories of Displaced ‘White Refugees’

  Was the planned event unduly sympathetic to slave owners, or a reflection of the historical intertwining of the lives of Black and White southerners? 

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• SOURCE: Buzzfeed
  6/7/2021
  

  I Visited A Former Plantation To Understand Why People Get Married There. All I Saw Was Pain

  by Clint Smith

  The popularity of celebrating weddings at the sites of enslavement and forced labor illustrates the huge gaps in White America's understanding of history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/7/2021
  

  Plantations Aren’t Paying Reparations, But Have Started Programs To Give Back To Descendants

  Joy Banner, descended from people enslaved at the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, is pursuing reparations in the form of input into the use of land owned by the Whitney, saying “there are as many different forms of reparations as you can think of, because healing looks different in every community.”

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/24/20
  

  National Register of Historic Places Often Ignores Slavery's Significance on American South

  The register’s written entries on the plantations tend to say almost nothing about the enslaved people.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/13/19
  

  Memo from a historian: White ladies cooking in plantation museums are a denial of history

  by Kelley Fanto Deetz

  I spent a decade researching and writing about enslaved plantation cooks and lecture on the topic at historic sites.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  12/4/19
  

  Pinterest and The Knot Take a Stand Against Plantation Weddings

  "We are grateful to Color of Change for bringing attention to this disrespectful practice," the statement added, referencing a California-based racial justice advocacy organization.

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• 11/10/19
  

  Slavery and Your Upcoming Christmas Tour

  by Robert E. May

  Despite their public claims that slaves were content with their situations, white southerners knew better. So should those going to southern historic mansions and plantations for Christmas.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/19
  

  As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back

  “We’re at a very polarized, partisan political moment in our country, and not surprisingly, when we are in those moments, history becomes equally polarized."

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/19/19
  

  Stephanie Jones-Rogers gives interview on how white women’s “investment” in slavery has shaped America today

  The author of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South explains why white women were not bystanders to slavery.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  2-17-15
  

  Penn historian finishes work on slavery he started researching 40 years ago

  Historian Richard Dunn’s study of plantations in Jamaica and Virginia has recently been published.