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Traveling to see WHITNEY PLANTATION's Hidden Secrets

Sometimes history is often one sided and usually goes to the victor. But in this video Im traveling to the Whitney plantation in Edgard LA to learn of it's hidden secrets. The Whitney Plantation's purpose is to provide an immersive education on the brutal realities of America's plantation era, fostering reflection, empathy, and a profound understanding of the ongoing struggle for justice. The plantation continued to operate until 1975 with resident workers and overseers. The two original slave cabins which are on display at Whitney Plantation today were the last workers’ cabins that were still occupied in 1975 when the plantation shut down. Many families lived and worked at Whitney Plantation throughout the 20th century, including the Howard, Poche, Gordon, Joseph, Jasmin, Zeringue, Tassin, Grow, Narcisse, and Cleofer families, among dozens of others. After the plantation ceased operations, descendants of the last owner, Alfred Barnes, sold the plantation to Formosa Chemicals and Fibre Corporation for the purpose of turning the property into a heavy industrial site. In 1999, John Cummings purchased a portion of the Whitney Plantation property from Formosa Chemicals and Fibre Corporation. After a decade-long battle with the local community, Formosa had pulled out of their plans to build the world’s largest rayon manufacturing plant on the site. Formosa’s requirements for the sale were very restrictive, which limited potential buyers. The purchaser had to agree to invest one million dollars into the restoration of the site, and to open it to the public for at least part of the year. After learning the history of the site and seeing succession documents – property transfers – that included the names of enslaved people, Cummings realized how little he knew about the institution of slavery. He embarked on a 14-year restoration process, with a goal to open the plantation to the public as a museum that focuses entirely on the lives of enslaved people. Cummings worked with many artists, historians, preservationists, conservators, curators and researchers as he worked to plan what would become Louisiana’s first plantation museum dedicated exclusively to the history of slavery. In the mid-2000s, he met Dr. Ibrahima Seck, a Fulbright scholar from Dakar, Senegal, whose research interests included the intersections of culture between Louisiana and Senegambia. A college professor at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Seck spent his summers working on research for the Whitney Plantation. He joined Cummings full-time in 2013. Whitney Plantation opened its doors on December 7, 2014 to a crowd of over 750 people, both local and international. Since its opening, the museum has welcomed over 500,000 people from around the world. After the first five years operating the museum and over $15 million invested, John Cummings donated the property and converted it to a nonprofit institution in 2019.