I decided to take a different and more expedited trip back to Austin, which led me to a long (a bit more than seven hour) trip to Alexandria, Louisiana.
Interestingly, the city boasts a memorialized plantation-home which has been made into somewhat of a tourist attraction and museum. It is called the "Kent Plantation House," perhaps the "house" addition is to make it seem a bit more "southern family" oriented as opposed to the horrors that were plantations. The description on their home page certainly does such:
"The plantation house is one of the oldest standing structures in the state of Louisiana. Together with its outbuildings, it preserves the homestead of a successful Creole family typical of a Louisiana colonial era working plantation."
A visitation allows the viewing of the grounds as well as the house that the plantation master and his family would have lived in. I'm really excited to see this and get a taste of the origins of the master-slave narrative, the Deleuze-esque essence that was physically manifested in our very own country, which would later lead to the great emancipation, Jim-Crow, and the struggles for civil rights that would expose the ideology that allowed for such institutions to remain in-tact for so long.
Here's a slave cabin on the plantation:
And the nicely persevered sugar mill:
And the master's bedroom:
Construction of the plantation was competed in 1800, making this plantation the container of some of the oldest building in Louisiana.
After my tour, I plan to hit up the only featured gay bar on the net in Alexandria, called "Olympus," "where you are never a stranger"
It seems to be pretty darn swanky compared to the other bars I plan to visit on this trip so I'm pretty excited to check it it out.
Since I'll be on a plantation, what song better to listen to than "Oh Berta, Berta"
Interestingly, the city boasts a memorialized plantation-home which has been made into somewhat of a tourist attraction and museum. It is called the "Kent Plantation House," perhaps the "house" addition is to make it seem a bit more "southern family" oriented as opposed to the horrors that were plantations. The description on their home page certainly does such:
"The plantation house is one of the oldest standing structures in the state of Louisiana. Together with its outbuildings, it preserves the homestead of a successful Creole family typical of a Louisiana colonial era working plantation."
A visitation allows the viewing of the grounds as well as the house that the plantation master and his family would have lived in. I'm really excited to see this and get a taste of the origins of the master-slave narrative, the Deleuze-esque essence that was physically manifested in our very own country, which would later lead to the great emancipation, Jim-Crow, and the struggles for civil rights that would expose the ideology that allowed for such institutions to remain in-tact for so long.
Here's a slave cabin on the plantation:
And the nicely persevered sugar mill:
And the master's bedroom:
Construction of the plantation was competed in 1800, making this plantation the container of some of the oldest building in Louisiana.
After my tour, I plan to hit up the only featured gay bar on the net in Alexandria, called "Olympus," "where you are never a stranger"
It seems to be pretty darn swanky compared to the other bars I plan to visit on this trip so I'm pretty excited to check it it out.
Since I'll be on a plantation, what song better to listen to than "Oh Berta, Berta"
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