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Although not original to the Whitney Plantation, these slave quarters were original to the Myrtle Grove Plantation in Terrebone Parish. Before the Civil War, the Whitney Plantation had 22 slave cabins. Also on display are sugar kettles, which…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

This memorial at the Whitney Plantation contains all 107,00 names of the slaves recorded by Gweldolyn Mildo Hall in the Louisiana Slave Database. It is meant as a contemplative space on the plantation grounds.

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

This display opened an exhibit on slavery in New Orleans. Seen is an auction block, on which slaves would have stood during slaves auctions, such as that which is depicted in the central illustration. That illustration, by William Henry Brooke,…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The bamboula was the drum used by slaves during their weekly Sunday evening gatherings in Congo Square where they would dance and make music.

Instead of leveling the hills on the Sanriku Coast, tunnels are being built to run through the hills, which helps preserve the natural topography but also provides better transportation to and from the coast.

This monument was originally erected in 1891, as a "memorial to white supremacy," to honor those whites who died in 1874, during the attack of the Crescent City White Leage (all whites) on the New Orleans Metropolitan Police (blacks and whites). As a…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.