Bitter taste of wealth

I nearly threw up and passed out at the only museum in entire of USA that is solely devoted to slavery. Museum is located at Whitney Plantation, Louisiana and we visited it last weekend. We have yet again learnt that freedom is a costly thing. At the same time, once the birth of that very freedom is concluded, we choose to forget the blood, tears and suffer that accompanied it. Presently, the image of slavery is still being romanticized and smoothened on its sharp edges, isn't it?

These heads on pikes are hidden away now in a corner of the plantation due to its brutality. Apparently, they caused too much anger on social media. These heads on spikes are not an example of author's imagination though as you may think reading in U.S.News of "Ceramic sculptures at the Whitney Plantation." These are the copies of heads that once belonged to slaves who were trying to free themselves from sugar cane plantations. These heads on pikes are true representation of heads that were indeed chopped off and put on pikes to mark the banks of Mississippi back in 1811.

Although wealth and prosperity of the entire USA was built on backs of slaves imported from Africa, presently you can find only one museum actively researching and exhibiting this issues to wider public (Yes, You are looking at Whitney Plantation).

Our Tour Guide talks on history of slave trade and slave breeding system.

Huge sugar kettles used to boil the sugar cane juice to granulation, by slaves of course.

Apparently, there is more Australians visiting Whitney Plantation Slavery Museum than local Americans. And slavery is still being practiced in USA - it took on subtle form of penitentiary system. Recently, Colson Whitehead won a Pulitzer award for bringing this past into the spotlight again in "Underground Railroad" book - I hope to read it one day too.