It is the story of Angola, a former plantation turned maximum security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000 acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of confederate soldiers. It is story of the Monticello plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises. It is the story of the Whitney plantation one of the former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it.