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Memo from a historian: White ladies cooking in plantation museums are a denial of history

  • Written by Kelley Fanto Deetz, Lecturer in American Studies, University of Virginia
Jermone Bias and Cheyney McKnight portraying enslaved cooks at Belle Grove Plantation in Middletown, Virginia, a National Park Service property.National Park Service

Fall is almost gone and winter is coming, as are hundreds of hearth cooking demonstrations at countless historic homes and plantations throughout the nation.

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