Whitney Plantation Audio Tour

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  susanono 5

  12 Dec 2021

  This was an excellent tour. What you’re largely paying for is transportation and entry to the Whitney Plantation. There is no guided tours there because of Covid but there is a head set self guided tour and even better an app you can download and use as a self-guided tour. The plantation does have plenty of docents around the property to answer any questions and expand on the info given. Definitely do this tour as it focuses not at all on a romanticized antebellum South but on the institution that supported it with blood. Our tour driver was Edward and he was great. New Orleans born and raised and also apparently responsible for super hurricanes as they seem to coincide with the birth of his children but he had some good stories. He is a good driver- never felt nervous. Informative about the area as we drove. The van was in great shape and clean. Finally we were picked up and dropped off at our hotel which saved my bad joints from walking. Would definitely recommend this company and driver.

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  Shalisa_P 5

  30 Jul 2021

  Awesome tour. Our driver from the hotel to the plantation was great and very informative. The plantation staff were a big help. The plantation has been kept in great shape and they have really preserved the history and haven’t “whitewashed” the tragedies that happened on that plantation.

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  granadina135 5

  28 Jul 2021

  Edward was so nice and very knowledgeable. He made the ride to/from Whitney Plantation enjoyable and its own sort of “mini” tour, which was really appreciated. Legendary tours is definitely the way to go.

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  aiyanahayes 5

  02 Jun 2021

  We visited this establishment on our 5th day in New Orleans. The staff was very welcoming and open to guiding patrons or answering any questions. The employees at the front desk do a great job of explaining how to download the Whitney Plantation app. They also provide headphones and an audio guide if you don’t want to use your phone when you trade your ID as collateral. We viewed the exhibit indoors which had several rooms and went into great written and photographic detail about the global slave trade and its impact on African Americans. The numbered exhibits outside were very organized and in sync with the audio guide. The story of slavery and sharecropping on the Whitney Plantation was depicted in great detail via the speakers on the app and the visual components in person. As an Foundational Black American myself, I felt the spirit of my ancestors in the place. I felt the trauma, pain, and triumph endured throughout all the years this plantation existed from slavery to the 1970s. The Whitney Plantation does an amazing job of telling the slavery’s real story from the slave’s viewpoint which is the most accurate. I recommend anyone visiting New Orleans take a trip to this place and immerse yourself in America’s most cruel institution which resonates its past, present, and future for Foundational Black Americans like myself.

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