Being that I never explored much of Louisiana aside from New Orleans I wanted to make a trip somewhere out of town. Being a photographer, I’m always looking for interesting places to visit and document. During our searches, one thing kept popping up and that was plantation tours. Some of these place were really beautiful but being a plantation in the south I knew that beauty came with an ugly history. I was very apprehensive about going to a plantation due to how plantations were built and run off of the backs of slave labor. We decided we would go to Oak Ally Plantation, enjoy the grounds, learn about the history of the place and hope they didn’t create a false narrative about its history.

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