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Upper Delta Field Station: Commodity Exploitation

Field Station 5 looks at the Upper Delta region—stretching from Memphis, Tennessee, all the way to New Orleans, Louisiana— which has been shaped intensively by environmental forces, the dynamics of

Plantation Legacies

This essay from Edge Effects examines the plantation as transformational in the history of organizing life, land and labor.

From Plantations to Petroleum

This article, from the Historical Society of St. Charles Parish in Louisiana, examines the transformation of the landscape in that region from plantations to industrial complexes. 

Whitney Plantation

A video from The Atlantic explaining the history and mission of the Whitney Plantation Museum