📚 Whitney Plantation: A Soul-Crushing History Lesson 😢

On my last day in NOLA, I debated between Gone with the Wind’s Oak Alley and the lesser-known Whitney Plantation—locals swore by the latter. Grateful I listened. 🙏 What awaited? A gut-punch: 👉🏾 Cramped Quarters: Enslaved people shared tiny cabins with strangers. (😭 Double beds, fireplaces… “luxury” compared to shacks?) ✌🏾 Sunup to Sundown: 14-hour workdays. (😭 Chinese farmers nodding in solidarity, modern 996 workers weeping.) 🖖🏾 Company Store Scam: Plantations ran stores to sell rotten food back to enslaved people—deducted from wages. (😭 “Free housing” = debt slavery.) 🖐🏾 Cash Tips for ‘Good’ Slaves: A “reward” system to pit enslaved people against each other. 🔥 The guide ended with: “Are you ANGRY yet?” Angry? I’m furious. 😡 But also… heartbroken for the lives stolen. 😢 #WhitneyPlantation #SlaveryHistory #NewOrleans 📖