Exploring Plantations in Louisiana :: Whitney & Oak Alley

[@paulahymel7055]

I live ten minutes from Oak Alley. I don't know if they told you that those beautiful oak trees took a really big hit during Hurricane Ida two years ago! It damage was unbelievable!

[@jyuniverse7818]

I visited twice to the Whitney Plantation. Very emotional but immensely informative. Thank you for sharing as they didn’t have the audio tour when I last visited. Never visited Oak Alley.

[@janicelynnhansen5870]

Your experience at the first plantation brought back very easily my feelings going through the Museum of African American History in DC a couple of weeks ago. The history of slavery experience was...wow. The pervading feeling of being touched by evil just hangs around in the background of your heart.

[@barbarakaywhite5166]

Thank you for sharing your tour sugarpie

[@taylourblair7194]

As someone who was born and raised in Mississippi, I love yalls fascination with the MS river.😂 I can’t wait to see the rest of yalls trip!

[@Rebecca-zp4gm]

At school in the uk, the slave trade was taught. The journey from Africa to the Caribbean was awful. The life they led from being caught in Africa to surviving the journey to the Caribbean to being sold and producing sugar. All life is precious.

[@JB-hl1qx]

I love old southern plantations ❤

[@derricklegg9612]

Thank you for taking us on your tours. We are going to have a daughter move to Mississippi here soon. Good thing to go visit when we are down there. Love you guys always!

[@LeggLife]

Wait, WHAAAAAT?! Clearly we need to chat soon!

[@joanpellillo2981]

So glad I could took pictures in Oak alley !

[@jodielemoine7157]

OMG....I wish I would have known you were in my neck of the woods. Thank you for another wonderful video!

[@bbwphotographer76]

Thank you for touring the plantations… and able to have the two experiences. As a kid (grew up in Chicago) every summer spent with my mom on her side of the family in Louisiana. As in late teens (mid-90s) going to them and understanding what they were showing and ‘teaching’ wasn’t right. It felt like glorifying the owners and see what the family was and still doing (doing tours to the public).

[@LeggLife]

Yes, that’s exactly what we heard SO many times when researching these tours before our trip. That’s why it was important to us to visit Whitney first, and we’re so glad we did. It’s a “must visit” in our opinion

[@irodriguez3824]

I was surprised to see how the inside of the plantation home was. Not what I imagined. This vlog definitely tug😅ged at the heartstrings. So happy you are able to take this trip. Drive safely.

[@diannegerspacher9062]

Cant wait to see more of Alaska! I enjoyed the totem bight state park in Ketchikan. Also the lumber jack show there. Blessings to you both 🙏💕

[@SusannaM]

Thank you for the very interesting tours. I really appreciate your research and bringing me along. I don't think I will visite US and am grateful for an honest tour of both plantations.

[@ariel_at_home]

I highly recommend visiting Laura Plantation if your ever back in the area, it gives the view point of Créole Heritage. Thank you for visiting the plantations and getting the message out there. It really helps us learn the ugly truth of the past and helps create awareness to the topic. Nottaway is a good one to visit also, they talk about the the plantations that had silver coins put into the banisters and what that meant.

[@Incogn3gr0e]

If those trees could talk 😢 ❤️‍🩹 I’m grateful to my ancestors without them I wouldn’t be here. 🫶🏾

[@montananative9786]

What an amazing video!!!! Also you two are so kind for having empathy for the mom on the flight, thank you!

[@lcflngn]

Sherri & Adam, I loved how you presented/contextualized your two plantation visits. I did a lot of college history work on US slavery, and clearly it’s so crazy heavy. Also not all that long ago… Haven’t been down to the South, but hope to one day. I also can’t believe you did all this on no sleep. As my dad used to say “you’re young yet”! All the ❤️

[@AlaskanBearsVlogs]

Oh how I wish we had time to visit the plantations. We actually thought we had an extra day in front of the cruise but we don’t 😅 see you soon!

[@genacook9309]

Thank you for sharing the experience. Great energy.😉

[@LeggLife]

Thanks so much for watching! We're glad you enjoyed it :)

[@stacylascelles2073]

I went to both plantations when I was there. I found them both very educational. I love the food there eat everything.!

[@rosemichel7559]

Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@nitabackes9670]

Thanks for this tour. So heavy, but so important for us to know and remember and FIX.

[@LeggLife]

Heavy and important. Perfect way to describe it

[@beautifulone3249]

It can never be fixed

[@terriefirmin3190]

About 40 miles from oak Alley is Nottoway..very big antebellum home. In Natchez Mississippi there all many old antebellum homes..also on the Mississippi.

[@damitdaina]

Who is cutting onions at 7:26 am my heart breaks for how people were treated and is still be treated.

[@tonieliddle5098]

This was so interesting. Thank you for bringing us along. I have been to NOLA many times. I want to do a plantation tour next time I am in the area.

[@LeggLife]

We would really recommend doing Whitney by it self, or Whitney and another plantation. We think the story Whitney tells us so important that it needs to be included

[@beatricek3801]

I have been to a plantation in the south, visiting the slave cabins also hit very hard .. just the imagination of those people living there… a lot to process.. thank you for sharing..

[@tinaprater9043]

Thank you for sharing your tours. That was very interesting. Safe travels!

[@LeggLife]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@livingweirdestherc6644]

That was so sad and heartbreaking. I’m sure I would’ve cried on that tour

[@LeggLife]

There were definitely tears shed

[@Video-ox8uf]

Thank you for plantation tour. - loved mickey earrings

[@ginaperez1804]

Great video sorry about the flight! Can wait till you see lecrae

[@tonyaruth2527]

Thanks so much for the honest take on these plantations. I’m the same I want to see both sides of the stories. And Sherri and I are spice sisters. I think black pepper is spicy!!!

[@nancyvozella3841]

That was powerful !

[@dorindapetty6774]

Love all y’all’s videos!!! Thanks for taking us along!!

[@LeggLife]

Our pleasure! Thank you for watching :)

[@egarduno011]

I didn't take the Whitney Plantation tour with you both, but I felt the sadness coming from both of you as if you both had heavy hearts.

[@dancieteague6854]

Lake Charles great place. Welcome to Texas you are so close.all the food looked so good. Sleep well. That bridge my brother one nite his team heading home ran across a gator. They gang together and got it safely to a better place. He said was not easy. But needed to be done. So watch out for friends with teeth. Have safe travels.

[@amyleonard416]

Yes, when in New Orleans and surrounding areas they do call you sweet names. Names for things do get pronounced differently like pralines. In Texas, some of the HEB stores are super nice. The newer ones. Some are older and dull.

[@warrenblanchard889]

Welcome! Hope you enjoy

[@cheryltoolin5601]

Have fun!!!

[@Jbeaty0507]

I lol’d at the Audio A reference 19:30

[@LeggLife]

Ha! Glad someone else appreciated it

[@crystalpistol4941]

As much as yall travel, invest in some Bose sound canceling over the earphones. So worth it!

[@diannewelch8380]

Nawlins, y’all! 🤗❤️

[@kathystoner4901]

Very interesting

[@tammyhanson7843]

Super fantastic ❤

[@Daryanadnan23]

omg that's braithwaite manor

[@esgee2464]

Is there free parking?

[@alicezamora7308]

Loved the Mickey earrings in the gift shop! You mentioned Sherri had recently read “Till Death” - who’s the author? More details about the book please?

[@LeggLife]

The author of Till Death is actually one of our LeggLife community members! Her name is Breck Suzanne.

[@alicezamora7308]

@@LeggLife thank you!

[@magscar2607]

So interesting! I recently watched a documentary on the politics during that time period. I don’t know why I didn’t remember this from school, but I was shocked that slavery lasted 244 years! I didn’t think it was that long!😞

[@disneydogs3003]

Love this vlog the Plantation was very enjoyable. Those Mickey ears in the shop were so cute, I would have snatched them up in a minute. Hope you guys get plenty of rest! ❤ 😊

[@RachelCheyann]

The way you talk about the experience of Whitney Plantation sounds a lot like our experience at the National Civil Rights Museum. It's hard and heavy, but something everyone should do.

[@theresa7744]

Love your videos always “honey” 😉 😂😂😂😂

[@rachellbourgeois6941]

Welcome to my home State ❤

[@swingitjack]

Out of the 45,000 plantations that existed, exactly one tells the real story.

[@traceydriver3171]

I’m still watching the video but wanted to point out that around 19:27-19:32 where you mention the trees. Let’s not forget that slaves were hanged very often so I’m sure those trees tell a different story that isn’t quite as “amazing” as you described.

[@LeggLife]

Without a doubt you’re correct. And the gardens that today are filled with beautiful flowers is land that was tilled by the sweat and blood of those who were enslaved. We certainly tried to not hide that fact in this video.

[@summerrain7915]

Wow. Your video really inspired me to learn more about the slavery in the US. I’m not American, I’m from Israel. Obviously, I’ve heard about the slavery and the civil war, but not the specific details, and it really made me think that I should educate myself more about that part of history. Especially when you said that it reminded you of the holocaust museum. I’ve had holocaust survivors in my family, and at least third of the people of my grandparent’s generation in Israel were holocaust survivors. I’ve heard many stories and met many people, and many families are still living with the trauma. So much of human suffering begins with people not seeing others as humans too. Thanks for taking us with you to this experience, and I’m going to look for a book or a documentary about slavery now.

[@AngiBelle1]

When I lived in Florida, I often heard people say that you have to go north to go south. The further north you are in FL, the more Southern the culture is. 😆

[@LeggLife]

Honestly, that makes total sense having been there!

[@ashleysisson6903]

Love this! Oak Alley has been on my bucket list for so many years. And I think I heard you right… you’re staying in Lake Charles? I’ve been to Louisiana twice in my childhood bc my dad was a construction superintendent on a couple of stores in Lake Charles, one being a Walmart.

[@LeggLife]

Yeah, we stayed in Lake Charles for one night passing through! If you do a plantation tour we REALLY recommend Whitney or Whitney and Oak Alley. We think the story Whitney tells us absolutely necessary

[@susanbarnett761]

Cravat is french for tie

[@VeronicaRonniDorval2638]

Watch Roots!

[@kylethecatholic]

Alligator feet were back scratchers

[@andylynn5067]

❤❤

[@kristin6338]

It is a struggle to see how curated Oak Alley is to help people avoid the ugliness that lived there for so long. Even the gift shop is sanitized and full of pretty things. I understand why you went, but I don’t know that I could do the same. That land holds the history of all of the atrocities committed upon it and as beautiful as it is, the reality is so heavy.

[@WorldsOkayestBot]

Those who forget the past are destined to repeat it. We should give people reasons to visit horrible historical sites, to teach them of why these things should never be repeated.

[@kristin6338]

@@WorldsOkayestBot choosing to spend money or time on a plantation that works to sanitize the past is the not my version of remembrance. That being said, we all choose for ourselves how to acknowledge what happened. I

[@LeggLife]

We actually talked a long time about this exact thing. We considered just doing Whitney because of that. However, our thought was that by making a video that included both, perhaps people who are looking for Oak Alley (which is significantly more visited than Whitney) information on KZbin would get a view of both, rather than the (highly) sanitized version of just Oak Alley. We would do both of them, we would do just Whitney, but we would not do just Oak Alley.

[@WorldsOkayestBot]

@@kristin6338 you can choose to look at it as sanitizing the past, or you can look at it as giving people a reason to want to come there in hopes of learning something. I just tend to be more charitable with my perception of peoples intentions. Perhaps I’m naive. Perhaps not.

[@kristin6338]

@@WorldsOkayestBot I am not questioning Adam and Sherri’s intentions. I am simply stating my own, very personal view. And I don’t think you are naive. The solemnity of the Whitney experience seemed to be purposefully missing at Oak Alley. And I don’t think that ugly history has to be made pretty to make it palatable for people who might otherwise deny it. People are not owed comfort when confronting a history of brutality and oppression.

[@VeronicaRonniDorval2638]

The baby probably was colicky because of the air pressure

[@JW-es5un]

THANK YOU. I want to take my only Granddaughter (only grandchild) who is A BEAUTIFUL BI-RACAL YOUNG LADY on a tour of many Plantations. I need her to be proud of who she is & understand what happened.. I get so emotional just thinking about slavery. But we must teach & REMEMBER TO NEVER LET HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF. MAY GOD GIVE REST & PEACE TO ALL WHO WENT THROUGH THIS TIME IN AMERICA INCLUDING THE CIVIL WAR. AMEN GOD BLESS FROM JULIE WEST CENTRAL INDIANA FARMLAND ✝️🇺🇸😊🙏🚜

[@LeggLife]

I have no doubt that there will be many tears and many emotions when you visit Whitney. It’s the kind of place we will never forget

[@angelsmilkyway4352]

Florida is considered "The Bottom" not the south. Unless you're in northern Florida like the pan handle. That's the south.

[@VeronicaRonniDorval2638]

President Lincoln is my favorite president! No urge to visit property that treated people like they did..

[@KW93747]

People saying pray-line instead of prah-line drives me crazy haha. Louisiana invented them so they know best!

[@Apollo_Blaze]

These places are horrible monuments to a horrible time of human suffering. Do not romanticize these houses of horror. This was a shameful time in this country's history that will never ever be erased.

[@colleenshea7626]

Too much gab and not enough Plantation.

[@LeggLife]

I’m definitely a gabber. Thanks for watching and i hope your day is filled with kindness and joy!

[@brendalea1606]

I fell asleep at the wheel after not sleeping the night before. please do not do this

[@LeggLife]

Oh gosh! No falling asleep at the wheel for us!

[@brendalea1606]

@@LeggLife i see you made it safe. have fun!