Whitney Plantation Wall of Honor
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2017-03-30

The Wall of Honor is a memorial dedicated to all the people who were enslaved on the Whitney Plantation. The names and the information related to them (origin, age, skills) were retrieved from original archives and engraved on granite slabs.

So far, more than 350 slaves were identified on official records. Sexual exploitation gave an additional level of horror to the lives of enslaved women. Every individual identified in legal records as a “mulatto” was, by definition, a product of white parentage in some measure. This occurred virtually exclusively due to slave owners impregnating their slaves. This was a common occurrence prior to emancipation and the “relationship” between white owners and enslaved women was sometimes documented through birth records.