When Nottoway Plantation went up in flames last month, the destruction of a place rooted in the nation’s history of enslavement sparked a range of reactions as some celebrated its demise and others mourned the loss of a rural Louisiana tourism engine.
Why it matters: That reaction, say sisters Joy and Jo Banner, who are the first Black women to own a Louisiana plantation, shows just how much generational trauma this community still has left to process.
What they’re saying: “I hope it’s opening up conversations about how as a society we can do more, but if it ends at, ‘We’re so mad at plantations and we’re glad when they burn down,’ then … that’s not nearly enough,'” Joy Banner tells Axios New Orleans…