Our Job Is To Show Them Why: Environmental Justice and Energy History at Whitney Plantation

This article is an interview with Ashley Rogers, executive director of Whitney Plantation. Whitney Plantation is the only plantation museum in Louisiana with an exclusive focus on the story of slavery. The museum is located on 200 acres of a former sugar, indigo, and rice plantation that operated from 1752–1975. Whitney Plantation is now a non-profit museum that preserves over a dozen historic structures, many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Whitney Plantation Historic District. I asked Rogers to give an interview for this issue of Parks Stewardship Forum because Whitney Plantation is a multi-phase energy story, with compelling climate and environmental justice themes.