{"id":1338,"date":"2018-01-17T17:34:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:34:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:34:38","slug":"go-visit-the-whitney-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Go, Visit the Whitney Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m delighted to see that the Whitney Plantation, just upriver from New Orleans, is getting the attention it deserves.\u00a0 Shortly after it opened, I wrote about the plantation devoted exclusively to telling the story of slavery in my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/on_california\/2015\/04\/to_understand_justice_study_profound_injustice_slavery.html?qs=slavery+whitney+plantation\">EdWeek column \u2018On California.\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1339\" src=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Anna_Bed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now the Whitney is making lists of \u201cmust-see\u201d places for 2018.\u00a0 \u201cThese destinations may inspire you,\u201d the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.latimes.com\/travel\/deals\/la-tr-destinations-for-the-new-year-20171231-story.html\">L.A. Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Cast aside thoughts of soft-accented guides in period costume providing testimony to what promotional material calls the South&#8217;s Golden Age.\u00a0 At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitneyplantation.com\/\"><strong>the Whitney Plantation<\/strong><\/a> there is noromanticism, no glorification of the Confederacy&#8217;s &#8220;lost cause&#8221;.\u00a0 Expect to be moved, educated, horrified, and perhaps motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Long before #MeToo, the young lady represented standing by her master\u2019s bed became the origin of the dual family tree of the plantation\u2019s 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century owners.\u00a0 One family tree is black; the other white.<\/p>\n<p>This story, and many others, await you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m delighted to see that the Whitney Plantation, just upriver from New Orleans, is getting the attention it deserves.\u00a0 Shortly after it opened, I wrote about the plantation devoted exclusively to telling the story of slavery in my EdWeek column \u2018On California.\u2019 Now the Whitney is making lists of \u201cmust-see\u201d places for 2018.\u00a0 \u201cThese destinations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[195,197],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}