Quite sobering watching the 2016 version of “Roots” having visited the US plantation location used for episode one. I saw Evergreen Plantation, Wallace, Louisiana in 2007 when I was in New Orleans as part of a tour. Still privately owned it was rather unusual in retaining real evidence of the slave era which built these places.
They had retained the less salubrious accommodation the slaves ‘enjoyed’ and evidence of their trade. I particularly remember a tax return on display; people valued, listed as assets.
So elegant and lovely on a sunny day, such a bleak history.
The only resident there when we visited, this cat which followed us for the entire tour.
Slave housing
Dolls represent real slaves, seen on the books…
