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 th...