Tourist plantation owners and slavery: a complex relationship

Candace Forbes Bright, Derek H. Alderman and David L. Butler

Current Issues in Tourism, 2018, vol. 21, issue 15, 1743-1760

Abstract: This paper examines owners of plantation heritage tourism sites as memorial entrepreneurs who control and negotiate the inclusion and specific treatment of the history of African enslavement. Interviews with owners of four South Louisiana plantations are used to document and analyse their complex relationship with the topic of slavery. Interviewed owners reveal varying understandings of tourist demand for the inclusion of slavery on tours and differences in their own personal desire to advertise and fully narrate enslaved heritage. Indeed, owners continue to propagate common myths surrounding the nature of slavery. Conceptualizing owners as memorial entrepreneurs has implications for understanding the interpretation and delivery of heritage tourism not only as a product but also a set of social values about the past.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2016.1190692

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