Back of the "Big House"
Whitney Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish LA
Kitchen Hearth
Big House Decoration
Big House Room
Each statue represents a named child slave.
Time Travel
Plantation Church
Sugar Cane & Slave Quarters
Life-size representations of former slaves interviewed around 1939-40, most of whom were children at the time of emancipation
Memorial to Charles Deslondes & other slaves executed after an 1811 slave revolt
Kettle & Slave Quarters
Looking Out on a Sma;ll World
Slave Pen (typical of slave markets)
Catherine Cornelius, Slave
Original Antebellum Kitchen
Oak Allée in Front of the Big House
Big House Faux Marble Decoration
2200 documented enslaved children died in St. John the Baptist Parish 1820s to 1860s
A Big House Bedroom, Whitney Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish LA
Sculptures of Slave Children by Woodrow Nash
A Poignant & Haunting Presence
"Jamaica Train" Kettles
Whitney Plantation. In the background: A memorial to 107, 000 documented slaves in Louisiana
