I’m not shedding a tear for Nottoway or for anyone’s cancelled Confederate cosplay wedding. I visited a couple of plantations (aka slave labor camps) on the River Road outside New Orleans many years ago, when there was no mention of slaves or slave quarters. Fortunately, Whitney Plantation (whitneyplantation.org) addresses its history head on. Naturally, they’ve gotten a lot of pushback from disgruntled folks looking for a more sanitized version.
I've never been but what you were saying chimes with a lot of the comments I've been seeing online about the Whitney. It sounds like the way it should be done. Meanwhile, in the stately homes of England, we have exhibitions about the Delhi Durbar which don't mention the famine killing hundreds of thousands going on at the same time...
I’m not shedding a tear for Nottoway or for anyone’s cancelled Confederate cosplay wedding. I visited a couple of plantations (aka slave labor camps) on the River Road outside New Orleans many years ago, when there was no mention of slaves or slave quarters. Fortunately, Whitney Plantation (whitneyplantation.org) addresses its history head on. Naturally, they’ve gotten a lot of pushback from disgruntled folks looking for a more sanitized version.
I've never been but what you were saying chimes with a lot of the comments I've been seeing online about the Whitney. It sounds like the way it should be done. Meanwhile, in the stately homes of England, we have exhibitions about the Delhi Durbar which don't mention the famine killing hundreds of thousands going on at the same time...