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Kelley Fanto Deetz

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Modern-day Culture Wars are Playing Out on Historic Tours of Slaveholding Plantations

Romanticized notions of Southern gentility are at odds with historical reality as the lives, culture and contributions of the enslaved are becoming integral on tours.
by Kelley Fanto Deetz via The Conversation on December 6, 2021
Lithograph of mansion, Stratford Hall, in Westmoreland County, VA

Oppression in the Kitchen, Delight in the Dining Room

The story of Caesar, an enslaved chef and chocolatier in colonial Virginia.
by Kelley Fanto Deetz via The Conversation on December 21, 2020

Memo From a Historian: White Ladies Cooking in Plantation Museums are a Denial of History

At museums across the South, you'll often find a white woman cooking in a big house kitchen. That's a role that was usually done by enslaved Africans.
by Kelley Fanto Deetz via The Conversation on December 13, 2019
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