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THE STORY OF SLAVERY

WHITNEY
PLANTATION

Hours: 9:30am- 4:30 p.m.
Last Entry 3:00 p.m.
Closed Tuesdays

THE PLANTATION EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD VISIT

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THE WHITNEY INSTITUTE EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HISTORY AND LEGACIES OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

Whitney Plantation (legal name The Whitney Institute) is a non-profit museum dedicated to the history of the Whitney Plantation, which operated from 1752-1975 and produced indigo, sugar, and rice as its principal cash crops. The museum preserves over a dozen historical structures, many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Whitney Plantation Historic District. Get our full story. >>

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Whitney Plantation offers visitors the rare opport

Whitney Plantation offers visitors the rare opportunity to hear the stories of enslavement in the place where those stories happened, creating a more visceral connection to those who came before us.
With your support, we can:
🧱 Preserve 13 original structures that serve as landmarks of Black history in Louisiana.
📖 Create and distribute free educational materials and research for 2,000+ students and visitors each year.
🎥 Host special events, community festivals, film screenings, performances, lectures and more!
Early giving for #GiveNOLADay begins April 29.
But don’t wait, donate today at the link in bio.
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📸: Photo by Elsa Hahne

🙏🏾 Thank you. In the face of actions by the

🙏🏾 Thank you.
In the face of actions by the Trump administration meant to silence Black history and dismantle DEI efforts, you showed up.
In less than a week, you've helped us raise almost $40,000.
We are humbled by your show of support. Your recent donations are a powerful stand for truth, justice, and remembrance. Because of you, Whitney Plantation continues to do the work.
We will not back down.
If you haven't had a chance to join our fight and still want to donate, visit: https://whitneyplantation.org/donate
#ThankYou #StandWithWhitney #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #TruthTelling #DEI

🌍 We were honored to welcome visitors from Germ

🌍 We were honored to welcome visitors from Germany’s @fridtjofnansenakademie as part of their civic education tour through the U.S. South.
"As part of our work we do educative trips for interested adults to places all over the world. Right now we are doing a roundtrip through the South dealing with US history and culture," says Florian Pfeil, CEO of the Fridtjof-Nansen-Academy for Civic Education.
Whitney Plantation tells a story that reaches across borders. No matter where you're from, we invite you to visit and engage with the truth of American history.
📍Plan your visit: https://whitneyplantation.org
#WhitneyPlantation #GlobalVisitors #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory

⚠️ Cancer Alley didn’t happen by accident.

⚠️ Cancer Alley didn’t happen by accident.
150+ petrochemical facilities line the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge–built on land once worked by enslaved people, now poisoning their descendants.
After slavery ended, sugar plantations didn’t disappear. They industrialized to use mechanical harvesting methods and adopted pesticides and fertilizers derived from oil. Then they sold out to international companies eager to keep extracting from Black communities.
In the 1990s, Formosa Chemicals tried to turn the land that would become Whitney Plantation into a rayon plant. It took years of community resistance to stop them.
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📷: Richard Misrach, Holy Rosary Cemetery and Dow Chemical Corporation (Union Carbide Complex), Taft, Louisiana. Courtesy of @highmuseumofart
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Breaking Chains, Shattering Barriers

3rd Annual Juneteenth Freedom Festival

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