“What Could It Have [Been] Then?”: Reflecting on the origins and historiography of a plantation historic site
12 May 2020 – Noah Janis
African American history, public engagement, plantation, community history, North Carolina, interpretation, race, slavery, historic preservation, commemoration
A big house. Stately trees. Curious outbuildings. In 1905, Pennsylvania-born tourist Matilda Kessinger marveled at the landscape before her, “something one always reads about but never sees.” After 18 years of traveling the South, Kessinger had finally found the one place that lived up to her romantic ideals of an antebellum plantation. Read More