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The Whitney Plantation Museum (Edgard, Louisiana)

Description

Abstract:
The Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall memorial is is named for the histoiran Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (1929-2022). Hall created the Louisiana Slave Database to document the enslaved persons who lived in Louisiana from 1719-1820. She "rescued the identies" of thousands who were enslaved in the territory, and then, state. The memorial is made up of eighteen black granite walls engraved with the names of the 107,000 enslaved persons from the Louisiana Slave Datase.
Notes:
The Whitney Plantation Museum (Edgard, Louisiana), Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Access Conditions

Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Ater, Renée, "The Whitney Plantation Museum (Edgard, Louisiana)" (2014). Sites of Slavery. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:4c6p5caj/

Relations

Collection:

  • Sites of Slavery

    Sites of slavery are designated as historic places (including plantations, wharves, archaeological sites) where "slavery happened" and that commemorate enslaved Africans, their lives, and their labor. We include sites that act as memorials and often have sculpture, public art, or …

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