# Conclusion  
On the grounds of the Whitney Plantation, visitors are offered a unique perspective on the life of enslaved people in Louisiana through restored historic buildings, exhibits, memorials and hundreds of first-person accounts of slavery. The plantation is designed to be a place of commemoration that takes positive action and serves as a catalyst for the second American revolution and the birth of post-racial America through lasting and thoughtful reparations. Education is at the centre of the Whitney Plantation Museum and its founders are convinced that the story of slavery is not merely a story of deportation and forced labour in the tobacco and rice fields, the vineyards or the sugar and indigo mills. As well as laying the foundations of the American economy, enslaved Africans and their descendants helped shape and define American culture and identity.