Whitney Plantation

A new museum offers a rebuke — and an antidote — to our sanitized history of slavery.

In Louisiana, a wealthy white lawyer has spent 15 years turning the Whitney Plantation into a museum dedicated to telling the story of slavery.

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In 2014, the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery. Through museum exhibits, memorial artwork, restored buildings and hundreds of first-person slave narratives, visitors to Whitney will gain a unique perspective on the enslaved people who lived and worked here.

Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, tells the story of slaves and slavery.

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After reading books upon books about plantation life, Whitney and all things he could possibly find he decided thats what was missing on River Road was the God's-honest-truth about slavery. So he decided to change that - and changing that he is! -Coreyann.com My experience here was great, I learned to appreciate the things I have. I also learned alot of things that my school doesn't teach us. I think it's important that more young black people come to visit and learn about their history. - Tahj W., Nola-2/1/15 Within the boundaries of the “Habitation Haydel”, as the Whitney Plantation was originally known, the story of the Haydel family of German immigrants and the slaves that they held were intertwined. In 2014, the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery.

The Whitney Plantation Historic District is a museum devoted to slavery in the U.S. South that is preserved near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana.