Whitney Plantation museum confronts painful history of slavery

This is one of the best representations of the same story about the Whitney Plantation and the rationale for its origin.    It actually serves a fundamental purpose of appreciating Freedom and fighting oppression of any type.

Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom | NPT

Very interesting that someone had the ingenuity and compulsion to trace their own ancestry as well as 300 other families' ancestries in order to gain knowledge of what had happened during slavery in the past.  This effort brings enlightenment to us of the future to be able to realize the power of what contributions were made to the wealth of this country by the lives of the slaves.  This is a powerful explanation of a realistic occurrence.

Whitney Plantation A Story of Slavery Show 88

The pathos that these images and explication arouses is profound to its depths.


I remain ambivalent about the exploration of such a vicious system.  I'm sure such exploration has various merits, but the realization remains painful to African-American people to view the awful possibility of their actual past of members of their own families.  It provides a rationale for a strong ambition to fight any possible thought of any such type of recurrence.