Some plantations romanticize the Antebellum South or ignore their role in the slave trade, but one Louisiana plantation has been educating visitors about the history of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Reporter Adeline Sire visited the Whitney Plantation and Museum in Wallace, Louisiana, to learn more about the lives and acts of courage of those who were enslaved there.

Some plantations romanticize the Antebellum South or ignore their role in the slave trade, but one Louisiana plantation has been educating visitors about the history of enslaved…

The history and legacy of slavery in America are not often taught in great detail. That is what Professor Mary Niall Mitchell, the Midlo Endowed Chair in History at the University…