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How is slavery presented at the public and private plantation museums in the American South, almost 150 years after the Civil War? Jennifer L. Eichstedt and Stephen Small investigated this question in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana by touring more than one hundred plantation museums; twenty locations organized and run by African Americans; and eighty general history sites. Their findings indicate that the experience and legacy of slavery is still inadequately presented within the larger discourse surrounding race, racism, and national identity.

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Jennifer L. Eichstedt is an assistant professor of sociology at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California; Stephen Small is an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

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