The name of every single slave who lived at Whitney between 1752 and 1865, when slavery was abolished, is now carved in the shiny stone tablets we wander by in the humid air under the silvery Louisiana sky. Also, there are the names of the 2,200 slave children who died between 1823 and 1865—mostly of starvation, even though they were owned by one of the richest plantations in Louisiana.
