Tilling The Soil

In this season finale, Erin and Amber reflect on the season and discuss the triumphs and difficulties of producing a podcast. They also give an update on the Wallace grain elevator court case and Erin say her final goodbyes to Tilling the Soil.Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

Erin, Noura and Dy’Monn complete their Down by the River tour. They conclude with their reflections on the impact that the broader issues of structural violence and environmental racism has on community members of the River Parishes.Graphic description warning.Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

Erin and fellow Whitney Plantation staffers, Noura and Dy’Monn, leave the office to go on the Louisiana Bucket Brigade’s Down by the River environmental justice tour. Led by Bike Ride Manager, Sheila Tahir, and The Descendants Project co-founder and community representative, Jo Banner, the tour starts in Dimond, LA, and visits several sites that embody the impact of petrochemical plants in the region. Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

Erin and Amber are joined by Dr. Joy Banner who is co-founder of The Descendants Project with her twin sister, Jo Banner. In their conversation, Dr. Banner and Erin talk about The Descendants Project's current initiatives and review their ongoing fight against the construction of a grain elevator in Wallace, LA. Dr. Banner also discusses her childhood memories and familial knowledge that shaped her perception of the environment.Check out episode 7 of season one to learn more about The Descendants Project.Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

Erin and Amber are joined by Joycelyn M. Davis, the Community Engagement Officer for Africatown C.H.E.S.S.. In this interview, Davis discusses the re-discovery and legacy of the Clotilda, the last documented ship known to transport enslaved Africans to the United States. Davis also shares the various initiatives that she and other descendants of the Clotilda are undertaking to preserve the history and fight for environmental justice in Africatown, AL.Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

Erin and Amber are joined by New Orleans native and chef, Toya Boudy. In their conversation, Chef Boudy discusses her self-reflexive cookbook, Cooking for the Culture, and how food can be the nexus for healing, healthfulness and identity. Boudy also explores the importance food plays for representation in media.Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

Erin and Amber are joined by author of Racial Indigestion and professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies, Dr. Kyla Wazana Tompkins. In their discussion, they explore the politics of eating, how eating culture has contributed to the construction of race in the United States and the environmental implication of slavery and agribusiness.Explicit language warning.Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

Erin and Amber are joined by Dr. J. Brent Morris to discuss his newest book, Dismal Freedom, and his research on the various maroons communities in North Carolina and Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamps. Dr. Morris also shares the difficulties associated with studying maroons in the United States and illuminates what maroons can tell contemporary people about the definition of freedom.Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

Amber Mitchell introduces her new co-host, Erin Hardnett, and they discuss the theme of the upcoming season of Tilling the Soil: the environment and African-descended people. In this introductory conversation, they reflect on the way that the environment acts as a site of memory, joy, and conflict in African American history. They also share moments in their lives that have shaped the way they conceive of race and the environment in the United States.Want more information about Whitney Plantation? Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

In this season wrap-up, Amber and Dr. Joy speak with Whitney Plantation's Director of Research Dr. Ibrahima Seck about the site's connections to West and Central Africa, how the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is remembered on the continent, his journey as an African historian of slavery, and memorial work that is still needed at Whitney Plantation.Visit The Louisiana Slavery DatabasePurchase Dr. Seck's book on the history of Whitney Plantation, Bouki Fait Gombo.Purchase Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's book, Africans in Colonial Louisiana.Check out the work of New Orleans artist B. Mike and Studio Be.-Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us to continue to create programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

In this second half of a two-part episode, Dr. Joy and Amber are joined by Whitney Plantation’s Executive Director Ashley Rogers and Director of Operations and Visitor Experience Yvonne Holden to talk about the whys and hows of the work of Whitney Plantation and the challenges that come along with being intentional at a former plantation site.-Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us to continue to create programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

In this two-part episode, Dr. Joy and Amber are joined by Whitney Plantation’s Executive Director Ashley Rogers and Director of Operations and Visitor Experience Yvonne Holden to talk about the whys and hows of the work of Whitney Plantation and the challenges that come along with being intentional at a former plantation site.Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us to continue to create programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.

Visitors come to Whitney Plantation with a lot of different ideas about what slavery was and wasn’t. Join Nicole Moore, historian and Director of Education at the Center for Civil and Human Rights as we walk through some of the myths about the Peculiar Institution, where they come from, and why they’re so hard for all of us to shake.Visit Nicole's work at Interpreting Slave Life.Learn more about the work of the Slave Dwelling Project.Read and Listen to the WPA Slave Narratives from the Library of Congress.-Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us continue creating programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

Co-founders Jo and Joy Banner of The Descendants Project discuss the legacies of slavery that still impact the descendant community that Whitney Plantation is part of, Wallace. The conversation includes environmental racism and lack of inclusion in the tourism industry, amongst many other connected issues.Read more about The Descendants Project and Whitney Plantation's fight against the Wallace Grain Elevator. Follow the Descendants Project on Facebook, on Twitter as @project_descend, and Instagram as @thedescendantsproject.Sign the petition to protect Whitney Plantation and Wallace!Read about the descendants and leadership battle at James Madison's Montpelier. --Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us to continue to create programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

This week, Amber and Dr. Joy are joined by Elon Cook Lee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, to talk about museum labor, race, and equity: how can a museum hold good labor practices while being a former site of subjugation?On Plantation Weddings.Follow Elon on Twitter.-Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us continue creating programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

Voices of Whitney Plantation’s interpretive staff and Gaynell Brady of Our Mammy’s, discuss the importance of education and interpretation onsite and generally when discussing the history of enslaved people and their descendants.You can keep up with Gaynell and her work at Our Mammy's on all social media platforms.Whitney's Education Team has gather resources for learners and teachers of all ages! You can view them on our website.-Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us continue creating programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

On this special episode, Amber and Joy chat with Whitney Plantation's Yvonne Holden and New Orleans-based attorney and TicTok content creator Wynton Yates about his viral video featuring slave cabins turned Airbnb. Here's Wynton's viral TikTok video , a Mic article on the issue, and Airbnb's response via the Washington Post. Be sure to follow @lawyerwynton on TikTok and other platforms!Read more about The Descendants Project and Whitney Plantation's fight against the Wallace Grain Elevator. Follow the Descendants Project on Facebook, on Twitter as @project_descend, and Instagram as @thedescendantsproject.Sign the petition to protect Whitney Plantation and Wallace!--Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us to continue to create programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

Historic Preservationist Nakita Reed talks about preserving historic sites, race, and the intersections of preservation, climate change, and environmental racism.Take a listen to Nakita's podcast, Tangible Remnants!Keep up with Nakita on her website.Check out this statement from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in defense of the descendant community of Wallace, LA and Whitney Plantation.-Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us continue creating programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

Dr. Ashley Bouknight-Claybrooks, historian and Senior Manager of Professional Development at the American Association for State and Local History, speaks on the history of Black museums and museology, and how Whitney Plantation helps to reshape our understanding of museums dedicated to Black history.-You can follow Dr. Bouknight-Claybrooks on Twitter. Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.

Hosts Amber and Dr. Joy are joined by Dr. Karen Cox, historian and author of Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created in American Popular Culture and No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice on the history of plantation tourism— the whys of how we as a community understand the history, projections, myths, around plantations, slavery, and what we see when we visit them today.-Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms!Help us continue creating programming that informs through a donation to Whitney Plantation.We need feedback! Please take this survey to help us better know our listeners.