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Author Potter, Amy E., author.

Title Remembering enslavement : reassembling the Southern plantation museum / Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Contents The unreconciled place of slavery in America -- Plantation museums as assemblages -- Examining the southern plantation museum assemblage -- Scarcity along Virginia's James River -- Edutainment and segregation in Charleston, South Carolina -- Change and continuity along Louisiana's River Road -- Centering the enslaved at Whitney and McLeod plantations -- Reassembling the Southern plantation museum : a reckoning -- The transformation continues.
Summary "Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science Foundation grant (2014-17), the book turns a critical eye toward the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing inequalities in how they narrate and memorialize the formerly enslaved. Using assemblage theory as a framework, Remembering Enslavement offers an innovative approach for studying heritage sites, retelling and remapping the ways that slavery and the enslaved are included in southern plantation museums. It examines multiple plantation sites across geographic areas, considering the experiences of a diversity of actors: tourists, museum managers/owners, and tour guides/interpreters. This approach allows for an understanding of regional variations among plantation museums, narratives, and performances, as well as more in-depth study of the plantation tour experience and public interpretations. The authors conclude the book with a set of questions designed to help professionals reassemble plantation museum narratives and landscapes to more justly position the formerly enslaved at their center."--Page [4] of cover.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Historical museums -- Southern States.
Slavery -- Southern States -- Historiography.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- Historiography.
Historic sites -- Southern States.
Historic sites
Historical museums
Plantation life -- Historiography
Slavery -- Historiography
Southern States
Added Author Hanna, Stephen P., author.
Alderman, Derek H., author.
Carter, Perry, author.
Bright, Candace Forbes, author.
Butler, David L. (David Lawrence), author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBd6xG6pXQjJFgrx3Yr4q
Other Form: Ebook version : 9780820360959
Print version: Potter, Amy E. Remembering enslavement. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2022] 0820360937 9780820360935 (OCoLC)1285566965
ISBN 9780820360959 (electronic book)
0820360953 (electronic book)
0820360937
9780820360935
0820360945
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