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Descendants Of The Enslaved Sheltered From Ida In A Historic Plantation's Big House

Jo (left), Joy Banner and their parents fled to the Big House on the Whitney Plantation to ride out Hurricane Ida last Sunday. They say their enslaved ancestors helped build the house. John Burnett/NPR hide caption

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Descendants Of The Enslaved Sheltered From Ida In A Historic Plantation's Big House

September 5, 2021 • Joy Banner's family took shelter in a house on a plantation their ancestors helped build. "They were not able to have this kind of house for their own protection when a hurricane hit them," she says.

Descendants Of The Enslaved Sheltered From Ida In A Historic Plantation's Big House

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Black Med Students At Former Slave Quarters Say 'This Is About Resiliency'

Russell Ledet, a second-year medical student (top row, third from left) organized an outing for 14 of his fellow African American classmates to a former plantation that had slave quarters. Ledet says he would caption this photo "Our Moment of Resiliency." Brian Washington Jr. hide caption

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Black Med Students At Former Slave Quarters Say 'This Is About Resiliency'

December 19, 2019 • Tulane University medical students visited a former plantation last week to take a photo that's going viral. "We were embodying the strength of the people who lived on those grounds," a student says.