Modern-day culture wars are playing out on historic tours of slaveholding plantations
- Written by: Kelley Fanto Deetz, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
These statues of enslaved young boys are part of a modern-day depiction of southern plantation life at the Whitney Museum in Louisiana. AP Photo/Gerald HerbertLocated on nearly 2,000 acres along the banks of the Potomac River, Stratford Hall Plantation is the birthplace of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the home of four generations of the Lee...
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