The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, opened the first museum designed to tell the story of slavery to visitors in December.
Whitney Plantation built and planned its exhibits largely in secret, but its first crowds were a mix of ethnicity and ages.
Read more about the plantation and its history from a large plantation, to a place changing the way museums work at The New York Times Magazine.
Building the first Slavery Museum in America
March 2, 2015
Courtesy of the Rural Life Museum
LSU Rural Life Museum and the LSU Textile Museum will host the “Tea, Fashion and Fancies” event Saturday where Mignon Faget will speak on her jewelry inspiration.
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