Nottoway Plantation: How to Profit from an Ugly Past
The Social and Global Justice Project
Carie Rael and John Belleci
The Social and Global Justice Project
On a recent trip to New Orleans, we decided to tour Nottoway Plantation, which is tucked away, off the beaten path, on the banks of the Mississippi River about sixty miles northwest of the city on the way to Baton Rouge. Our creeping sense of apprehension began already on the drive in, as we wound our way through Cajun Country past drive-up crawfish stands and some of the most abject rural poverty of Black Americans in the South. That there were so few people and so many churches also spoke to the paternalistic nature of oppression that we found ourselves immersed in.
Nottoway boasts that it is the largest antebellum plantation left in the South. The main product produced by the more than 155 slaves who once toiled here was the sugar cane that was grown on over 1000…
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Posted on December 29, 2013, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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I am impressed with your blog, and as a nurse, I don’t know how you have time to keep up with it. I retired last spring after being a nurse for over 30 years. And you are right, it is an emotionally and physically stressful job. I’ve worked OB in hospitals,in a women’s prison, a dialysis clinic, and a NiCU. My oldest daughter is a nurse. Ans you’re right, only another nurse can understand the stress.
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I just found your blog and I love it. I am a nursing assistant but identify with the politics and hierarchy of beside care. Thanks for your decision and all that you do.