Whitney Plantation, Museum of Slavery and St Joseph Plantation Tour

This tour is a small group narrated guided tour by van. At Whitney Plantation 's Louisiana Museum of Slavery see the harsh realities and raw historical facts of a dark side of American history. The slave narratives and artwork recreate the world of a pre-Civil War southern sugar plantation and memorialize the lives of the enslaved people who toiled there. A short ride through sugar cane fields to St Joseph Plantation, a Creole style family-owned working sugar cane plantation. Family members give a relaxed, intimate tour of their ancestral home and dependencies (including original slave cabins).