Dialogue on the Plantations

Please join the Center for the Healing of Racism for the 5th annual Dialogue on the Plantation, March 11-12, 2023. We will travel together by bus to experience a powerful tour of three Louisiana plantations.  Our first stop on will be St. Joseph Plantation, a working sugar cane plantation east of New Orleans. Oprah Winfrey’s hit drama Queen Sugar was filmed there. Our next stop is Laura Plantation, a Creole plantation. Creole life in Louisiana exhibited a unique, characteristic thread: the understanding that the family operated as a business and that the business was family. We’ll conclude our first day together with dinner and dialogue.

After a continental breakfast the next morning, we take a 90-minute tour of Whitney Plantation, a genuine landmark built by enslaved Africans and their descendants. As a site of memory and consciousness, the Whitney Plantation is meant to pay homage to all the enslaved humans not only on the plantation itself but elsewhere in the American South. Whitney Plantation is one of the few plantations to focus only on the enslaved people who were forced to work there and not on its opulence. After the tour, we will gather in a picnic area to dialogue about the trip and the history we learned before heading home.

For more information and costs: 713-520-8226.

https://www.centerhealingracism.org/event/5th-annual-dialogue-on-the-plantation/