Whitney Plantation
Former sugar plantation turned solemn memorial museum devoted entirely to the history of slavery.
Whitney Plantation in New Orleans began as Habitation Haydel, a German immigrant's indigo farm turned sugar plantation where more than a hundred enslaved people once worked the punishing grinding season. The guide follows the plantation's ledgers of enslaved children who died young, and leads you into the Field of Angels, a courtyard memorial naming thousands of children who died before age three across the parish. A retired trial lawyer named John Cummings bought the land in 1999 and spent years and his own fortune turning it into a museum built solely around slavery's history, with a wall naming every enslaved person documented on the property.
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