Review: Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum, by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum, by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022. xii + 302 pp.; appendices, notes, bibliography, index; clothbound, $114.95; paperbound, $37.95. Jennifer W. Dickey Jennifer W. Dickey Kennesaw State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 128–129. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.128 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jennifer W. Dickey; Review: Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum, by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 128–129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.128 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum offers a fascinating and detailed look at clusters of plantation museums in three geographic areas in the United States—Virginia’s James River, the greater Charleston, South Carolina, area, and Louisiana’s River Road. Coauthored by a team of five geographers and a sociologist from six higher-ed institutions, this book should find an eager audience among public history educators and professionals. Supported by a National Science Foundation grant, the authors carried out an in-depth analysis of interpretations of slavery at fifteen plantation museums over a three-year period (2014–17). Using assemblage theory, the idea that both the “human and inhuman, animate and inanimate entities” of these sites act together and are “greater than the sum of their constituent parts,” the authors dissect the various components of each museum (25). They examine “the actors, spaces, and contexts,” that compose these heritage tourism sites in an effort to “disassemble... You do not currently have access to this content.