Louisiana plantation tells the stories of slaves who lived and died there

(9 May 2015) US PLANTATIONS
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Wallace, Louisiana - March 1, 2015
1. Wide of Whitney Plantation grounds
2. Pan of slave cabins on Whitney Plantation
3. Tilt/pan from slave cabin to metal cauldron used by slaves to boil sugar cane
4. Tilt up from water in one cauldron to show line of cauldrons
5. Pan of chained gate with fields where slaves once worked in background
6. Pan of memorial to the 107,000 people documented to have been enslaved in Louisiana
7. Mid of engraving on wall of memorial surrounded by names of slaves
8. Close detail of engraving depicting slave and master
9. Tilt down list of slaves
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ibrahima Seck, Director of Research at Whitney Plantation:
"It's called the Field of Angels. It is a memorial dedicated to slave children. We collected 2,200 names of children who died very early - most of them before their second or third birthday here in this parish only."
11. Pan of Seck and Whitney Plantation owner John Cummings walking to statue at Field of Angels memorial
12. Mid of Seck and Cummings looking at statue
13. Tilt up statue
14. UPSOUND: (English) John Cummings, Owner of Whitney Plantation, pointing out names on wall at Field of Angels:
"A death, May 3, 1860. The child didn't have a name, he was too young. But, they described him as a little negro. How old was he? He was little."
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Cummings, Owner of Whitney Plantation:
"Plaques with the names of 2,200 slave children who died here. And if you add all of their ages up and divide by 22, their average was less than three years old. And, we have the date of death and the name of the child. For example, here the child was 16 days old. And her mother was Celeste."
16. Wide of tour walking to church
17. Mid tour entering church
18. Pan from tourists to Whitney Director of Operations Ashley Rogers
19. UPSOUND: (English) Ashley Rogers, Director of Operations at Whitney Plantation
"People who made this church, built this church, signed the charter with X's because they were illiterate in those early years."
20. Rack focus from tourist to statue of slave child
21. Pan from statues of slave children to statue of Pope Nicholas V who sanctioned Portugal's right to enslave Africans in the 15th century
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Cummings, Owner of Whitney Plantation:
"We want to have the spirit of humanity activated here. Because, even if you have no personal guilt, all of us have a reason to grieve. We all know that was terrible what happened. We can all grieve here."
23. Mid of Rogers leading tour through plantation
24. Mid of tour going to look at slave cabin
25. Close bed in slave cabin
26. Tilt down fireplace in slave cabin
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ibrahima Seck, Director of Research at Whitney Plantation:
"When you go to the quarters and you see where the slave lived. Go to the slave cabin and you see that it wasn't comfortable at all. Tiny houses, they may have two families in the same house, in the same cabin."
28. Pan from tourists to Rogers standing in front of slavery era prison block
29. UPSOUND: (English) Ashley Rogers, Director of Operations at Whitney Plantation standing in front of prison block:
"Also, enslaved people could be confined to jail cells like this if they tried to run away and were caught by slave-catchers."
30. View of plantation big house from inside jail cell
31. Rack focus from porch of plantation house to bars of jail cell
33. Wide of tour walking past plantation kitchen
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