Title Remembering enslavement : reassembling the Southern plantation museum / Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler

Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents The unreconciled place of slavery in America -- Plantation museums as assemblages -- Examining the southern plantation museum assemblage -- Scarcity along Virginia's James River -- Edutainment and segregation in Charleston, South Carolina -- Change and continuity along Louisiana's River Road -- Centering the enslaved at Whitney and McLeod plantations -- Reassembling the Southern plantation museum : a reckoning -- The transformation continues Summary "Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science Foundation grant (2014-17), the book turns a critical eye toward the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing inequalities in how they narrate and memorialize the formerly enslaved. Using assemblage theory as a framework, Remembering Enslavement offers an innovative approach for studying heritage sites, retelling and remapping the ways that slavery and the enslaved are included in southern plantation museums. It examines multiple plantation sites across geographic areas, considering the experiences of a diversity of actors: tourists, museum managers/owners, and tour guides/interpreters. This approach allows for an understanding of regional variations among plantation museums, narratives, and performances, as well as more in-depth study of the plantation tour experience and public interpretations. The authors conclude the book with a set of questions designed to help professionals reassemble plantation museum narratives and landscapes to more justly position the formerly enslaved at their center."--Page [4] of cover Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2022) Subject Historical museums -- Southern States Slavery -- Southern States -- Historiography Plantation life -- Southern States -- Historiography Historic sites -- Southern States Historic sites Historical museums Plantation life -- Historiography Slavery -- Historiography Southern States Form Electronic book Author Hanna, Stephen P., author. Alderman, Derek H., author. Carter, Perry, author. Bright, Candace Forbes, author. Butler, David L. (David Lawrence), author. ISBN 9780820360959 0820360953

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