Plantation museums can reframe slavery as foundational rather than genteel heritage

Evidence

But unlike many plantation museums in the South, this one is designed not to glorify a past of putatively genteel masters and mistresses but to educate visitors and offer them a chance to bear witness to the exploitation and extraction that are the foundation of our modern world. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 261

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the museum-memory debates in the Confederate monuments literature and the broader ‘origin stories are infrastructure’ theme.