Slavery, Tourism, and Memory in New Orleans's "Plantation Country"

In southern Louisiana's Mississippi basin, the parishes upriver from New Orleans are home to multiple restored sugar plantations and museums focused on the history of plantation slavery and the culture of the region. This interview-essay is based on interviews conducted individually with slave plantation site and museum operators, artists, academics, and those between and beyond these categories. The interviews are presented as a staged dialogue on the dynamics of violence, commerce, identity, and agency that construct plantation slavery tourism in Louisiana in conflicting ways.