After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...

It seemed like an appropriate time to visit Nottoway, which in many ways is emblematic of how some want to whitewash America’s fraught history with race.

A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

Pastor Dale Flowers said he never visited Nottoway, which was finished in 1859 in White Castle.

Fire crews mover a line around the now fully engulfed the Nottoway Plantation on Thursday, May 15, 2025 in White Castle, La. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate via AP) But some plantations also de ...

Crews remain on scene after a fire on Thursday, engulfed the historic Nottoway Plantation, Friday, May 16, 2025, in White Castle, La. Credit: AP/HILARY SCHEINUK “It was a resort,” Rogers said.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear what the loss of the Nottoway Plantation House means to descendants of people enslaved ...

Many thoughts rumbled for space in my head as I watched the media’s relentless updates about the flames slowly engulfing the historic Nottoway Plantation in White Castle. First, I thought it was ...

Nottoway, a former sugar plantation ... Thompson, whose family is from White Castle, questioned the owner’s plans to rebuild. “Why re-erect a symbol of something that hurt so many people?” ...