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2022-2023 Common Read - How the Word is Passed: The Whitney Plantation

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Whitney Plantation

Whitney Plantation

The Children of Whitney

A series of sculptures by Ohio-based artist Woodrow Nash. https://www.whitneyplantation.org

Big House

Bill Leiser, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Slave Cabin

Photo by Elsa Hahne https://www.whitneyplantation.org/photo-gallery/

Memorial to the 1811 German Coast Slave Uprising: located on the plantation.

Cupreous, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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