295 Whitney Plantation Museum

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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What does it take to create a museum? How can a museum help visitors grapple with a very uncomfortable aspect of their nation’s past? Ibrahima Seck, a member of the History Department at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, author of the book, Bouki Fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860, and the Director of Research of the Whitney Plantation museum, leads us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Whitney Plantation and through the history of slavery in early Louisiana. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/295 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 017: François Furstenberg, When the United States Spoke French 🎧 Episode 124: James Alexander Dun, Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America 🎧 Episode 125: Terri Snyder, Death, Suicide, and Slavery in British North America 🎧 Episode 137: Erica A. Dunbar, The Washingtons’ Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 🎧 Episode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New Orleans 🎧 Episode 281: Caitlin Rosenthal, The Business of Slavery 🎧 Episode 282: Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the
0:02.8	Oma Hundro Institute. Hello and welcome to episode 295 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:18.0	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past
0:24.1	have shaped the present-day world we live in. And I'm your host, Liz Kovart. What does
0:30.6	it take to create a museum?
0:33.0	How can a museum help visitors grapple with a very uncomfortable aspect of their nation's past?
0:39.0	Today we're joined by Ibrahim A sec,
0:42.0	a member of the history department of the University
0:44.7	Shech and to Diope in Dakar Senegal, an expert in the history of slavery and the director of
0:50.4	research of the its kind in the United States, and that it's a museum entirely dedicated to the history of slavery.
1:06.0	Now, as we tour Whitney Plantation,
1:09.4	Ibrahim reveals details about the creation of the Whitney Plantation Museum, strategies the Whitney
1:16.0	Plantation Museum employs to help visitors grapple with a very tough subject of slavery, and lots of information about the history and development of the Whitney
1:25.7	Plantation and about the enslaved who worked and lived on the plantation
1:30.0	and in early Louisiana.
1:32.2	But first, did you know that the Ben Franklin's World
1:35.0	listener community on Facebook
1:36.9	is your gateway to the brand new
1:38.7	listener-run Poor Richards Book Club?
1:41.5	Holly and I started a book club last year in the Ben Franklin's world community,
1:45.0	and we found that we just couldn't continue it as a full year activity.
1:49.0	So Heather and Shari, who are listeners just like yourself.
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