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Brierfield Plantation Museum, Kendall Malott, Kimberly May, Brian Diokpara, Abigail Marmito

History from Below: Memorialization Projects

For our project, we decided to memorialize the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade in the form of a museum. Our museum is going to be a replica of the Brierfield Plantation owned by Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy. This location is important because it was once one of the most profitable cotton plantations in the south. Cotton has been an essential crop for hundred s of years; today, it is found in almost every piece of clothing. Most people in developed countries don’t realize that their consumerism comes at a cost, that people thousands of miles away are …