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Highlights
- Round-trip transportation and a self-paced audio tour bring Louisiana’s only slavery-focused plantation museum to life.Hear powerful first-person slave narratives as you explore restored buildings and evocative memorial artwork.Step inside the Big House, a rare Spanish Creole cottage and one of Louisiana’s earliest raised homes.Discover the evolution of working plantations through preserved outbuildings and museum exhibits.Enjoy scenic views as you pass historic plantations like Oak Alley, Laura, and Evergreen.
Your Experience
On this tour, you will get a personal look into the history of plantation owners and enslaved people in Antebellum Louisiana.
In 2014 the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in Louisiana completely dedicated to the history of slavery. The experience at Whitney is a self-paced audio tour. Through museum exhibits, memorial artwork, restored buildings, and hundreds of first-person narratives, visitors to Whitney will gain a unique perspective on the enslaved people who lived and worked here.
The early owners of Habitation Haydel, later known as Whitney Plantation, became wealthy producing indigo before the plantation transitioned to sugar in the early 1800s. Whitney is also significant because of the number of its historic outbuildings which were added to the site over the years, thus providing a unique perspective on the evolution of the Louisiana working plantation. The Big House is one of the finest surviving examples of Spanish Creole architecture and one of the earliest raised Creole cottages in Louisiana.
The Whitney Plantation Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places. As a site of memory and consciousness, the Whitney Plantation Museum is meant to pay homage to all enslaved people on the plantation itself and to all of those who lived elsewhere in the United States.
On your journey to this historic setting, you’ll travel past Laura, Oak Alley, Evergreen, Felicity & St. Joseph Plantations, ghosts of the past that front the Mississippi River, where rich crops of sugar cane, cotton, and indigo from these fertile lands once traveled to ports of trade.
Inclusions & Exclusions
- Round-trip transportationAudio tour focusing on first-person slave narrativesView museum exhibits and memorial artworkSee restored plantation buildingsVisit historic outbuildingsLearn about the Big House Creole CottagePass Evergreen, Felicity, St. Joseph, Laura, Oak Alley Plantations
- Gratuities (optional)Food and drinks
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