Today's Culture Wars are Playing Out on Plantation Tours

by Kelley Fanto Deetz

"Museum professionals at plantations hear it all and must balance viewpoints that are diametrically opposed to one another, such as the romanticized notion of antebellum gentility and the constant fear of terror and violence of the enslaved."

Slavery and Your Upcoming Christmas Tour

by Robert E. May

Despite their public claims that slaves were content with their situations, white southerners knew better. So should those going to southern historic mansions and plantations for Christmas.