Southern plantations adapt to the Black Lives Matter era

2020-08-13T13:43:00-04:00

While much attention has been paid this summer to the removal of racist monuments to the confederacy, America's legacy of historic plantations continues on as a lucrative, popular, and deeply controversial industry.

A transformation has been taking place within some of the organizations and entities that own and operate these sites, however, writes Tiya Miles, professor of history at Harvard University, in The Boston Globe.

Previously on Archinect: "Architect Jobie Hill is creating a national survey of America's slave houses." Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Preservation Maryland.

Miles explores the conflicting messages sent by the operators of some of these estates in recent months as support for the Movement for Black Lives has increased even among the operators of former plantations.

Miles also highlights Whitney Plantation in Louisiana and the McLeod Plantation in South Carolina has a new type of historic plantation that "consciously centers African and African American e...

Building the First Slavery Museum in America

2015-03-02T13:03:00-05:00

Built largely in secret and under decidedly unorthodox circumstances, the Whitney [Plantation] had been turned into a museum dedicated to telling the story of slavery — the first of its kind in the United States. Located on land where slaves worked for more than a century, in a state where the sight of the Confederate flag is not uncommon, the results are both educational and visceral.

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Southern plantations adapt to the Black Lives Matter era

Building the First Slavery Museum in America