The Past, Present, and Future of Southern Plantations

Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses, managed by The Woman’s Exchange, preserves two 19th-century French Quarter homes and, through their architecture, collections, and history, inspires discourse about our collective past and its relevance to our present and future. Visitors, students, and researchers explore such diverse topics as the lives of the houses’ owners and enslaved people, free people of color, open-hearth cooking, mourning rituals, and the entrepreneurial pursuits of women.

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Join Dr. Whitney Nell Stewart for an in-person conversation about the complicated history and living legacies of southern plantations.

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About this EventThe cultural memory of southern plantations has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to American history, however, has emphasized their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence. Yet even this reckoning obscures what these sites meant to so many forced to live and labor on them: plantations were Black homes as much as white. And as contemporary Black Americans demand a voice in how these sites interpret their ancestors' stories, enslaved people's homemaking emerges as a crucial part of southern history. Join Dr. Whitney Nell Stewart for a conversation about the complicated history and living legacies of southern plantations. About the SpeakerDr. Whitney Nell Stewart is a historian of slavery and the American South. Along with several articles and essays, she is author of the award-winning book <a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675688/this-is-our-home/" title="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675688/this-is-our-home/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations</a>. Her work has been supported by organizations like the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian, the Huntington Library, and Winterthur Museum, Garden &amp; Library. Stewart is an associate professor of history and faculty of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also a practicing public historian, and most recently served as Historian and Co-Author of the National Park Service's Historic Context Survey of Louisiana's Great River Road. This lecture is made possible with support from the City of New Orleans Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy.

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