Nerissa Knight gives a look into a dark time in America’s history as she reports on the Whitney Plantation Museum in New Orleans, which was once a sugar cane plantation. Dr. Joy Banner, a descendant of the enslaved people and enslaving family that were at the plantation, spoke with BNC on how she flipped the narrative. Dr. Banner also serves as the communications director of the museum. “In a strange way, it’s an outlet, and it’s allowed me to delve into the history in a way that I never did before,” she says.
Visitors can view actual slave cabins and pins similar to auction houses. Four memorials on the plantation are dedicated to those killed in the 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt.
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