Commemorating the Enslaved Along Louisiana’s River Road
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2017
Publication Title
American Association of Geographers Online Newsletter
DOI
10.14433/2017.0019
Abstract
Between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, lies the remnants of antebellum sugar plantations along Louisiana’s famed River Road, named for the Mississippi River that snakes its way through southern Louisiana before spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Many of the eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century plantation homes that still exist along this road have been preserved, and some have been transformed into museums dedicated to retelling Louisiana’s antebellum period. A few of these museums attract as many as 200,000 visitors a year (Oak Alley and Laura, A Creole Plantation, for example). Most of these plantation house museums, however, have traditionally focused their narrative presentations on the planter and his family, which necessitates that tours be spatially arranged in and around the planter’s home (The Big House).
Recommended Citation
Potter, Amy E., Stephen P. Hanna, Perry L. Carter.
2017.
"Commemorating the Enslaved Along Louisiana’s River Road."
American Association of Geographers Online Newsletter: American Association of Geographers.
doi: 10.14433/2017.0019
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/geo-facpubs/168
