Finding out about the history of sugar production leaves a nasty taste.
Around Louisiana and nearby states are many plantations. The Whitney Plantation is a museum dedicated to informing and educating visitors about life as a slave in the United States.
It includes the main house where the plantation owners lived in luxury and the church where they worshiped.
It also includes outbuildings where slaves lived in misery, as well as a cooler where they were incarcerated if they ever disappointed their master or overseer.
There are memorials to hundreds of slaves who worked on the plantations and who spent their lives in constant fear of the bull whip.
Exploring the Whitney Plantation makes you feel uncomfortable. However to understand the history of the United States it is an essential place to visit.
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