Black Magnolia: Counter-Narrating a Plantation Tourist Site

How did Magnolia’s former slaves and those workers who were born after abolition face tourism’s exploitative conditions through life-affirming acts of resilience resistance? The paucity surviving testimonials from these subjects makes answering this question rather difficult, as does the contrasting abundance archival evidence attesting to brutality slavery its afterlives. With due caution, I counter-narrate Magnolia perspectives Black workers, approximating their lived realities records research on other enslaved freed subjects, projecting subjective experiences back into period accounts historical images estate. pay particular attention how they inhabited landscape benefit, managed interactions with tourists, created bonds support amongst one another. site’s my guides, endeavor uncover Magnolia.