Your experience at the first plantation brought back very easily my feelings going through the Museum of African American History in DC a couple of weeks ago. The history of slavery experience was...wow. The pervading feeling of being touched by evil just hangs around in the background of your heart.

I live ten minutes from Oak Alley. I don't know if they told you that those beautiful oak trees took a really big hit during Hurricane Ida two years ago! It damage was unbelievable!

I visited twice to the Whitney Plantation. Very emotional but immensely informative. Thank you for sharing as they didn’t have the audio tour when I last visited. Never visited Oak Alley.

What an amazing video!!!! Also you two are so kind for having empathy for the mom on the flight, thank you!

Love all y’all’s videos!!! Thanks for taking us along!!

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Thank you for watching :)

Thank you so much for sharing this.

Thank you for sharing your tours. That was very interesting. Safe travels!

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for taking us on your tours. We are going to have a daughter move to Mississippi here soon. Good thing to go visit when we are down there. Love you guys always!

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Wait, WHAAAAAT?! Clearly we need to chat soon!

Thank you for touring the plantations… and able to have the two experiences. As a kid (grew up in Chicago) every summer spent with my mom on her side of the family in Louisiana. As in late teens (mid-90s) going to them and understanding what they were showing and ‘teaching’ wasn’t right. It felt like glorifying the owners and see what the family was and still doing (doing tours to the public).

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s exactly what we heard SO many times when researching these tours before our trip. That’s why it was important to us to visit Whitney first, and we’re so glad we did. It’s a “must visit” in our opinion

Sherri & Adam, I loved how you presented/contextualized your two plantation visits. I did a lot of college history work on US slavery, and clearly it’s so crazy heavy. Also not all that long ago… Haven’t been down to the South, but hope to one day. I also can’t believe you did all this on no sleep. As my dad used to say “you’re young yet”! All the ❤️

Cant wait to see more of Alaska! I enjoyed the totem bight state park in Ketchikan. Also the lumber jack show there. Blessings to you both 🙏💕

OMG....I wish I would have known you were in my neck of the woods. Thank you for another wonderful video!

Thanks for this tour. So heavy, but so important for us to know and remember and FIX.

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Heavy and important. Perfect way to describe it

@beautifulone3249

8 ай бұрын

It can never be fixed

As someone who was born and raised in Mississippi, I love yalls fascination with the MS river.😂 I can’t wait to see the rest of yalls trip!

I went to both plantations when I was there. I found them both very educational. I love the food there eat everything.!

I was surprised to see how the inside of the plantation home was. Not what I imagined. This vlog definitely tug😅ged at the heartstrings. So happy you are able to take this trip. Drive safely.

Thank you for sharing the experience. Great energy.😉

@LeggLife

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! We're glad you enjoyed it :)

This was so interesting. Thank you for bringing us along. I have been to NOLA many times. I want to do a plantation tour next time I am in the area.

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

We would really recommend doing Whitney by it self, or Whitney and another plantation. We think the story Whitney tells us so important that it needs to be included

I love old southern plantations ❤

Thank you for the very interesting tours. I really appreciate your research and bringing me along. I don't think I will visite US and am grateful for an honest tour of both plantations.

At school in the uk, the slave trade was taught. The journey from Africa to the Caribbean was awful. The life they led from being caught in Africa to surviving the journey to the Caribbean to being sold and producing sugar. All life is precious.

Have fun!!!

That was powerful !

Thank you for plantation tour. - loved mickey earrings

So glad I could took pictures in Oak alley !

Welcome! Hope you enjoy

I highly recommend visiting Laura Plantation if your ever back in the area, it gives the view point of Créole Heritage. Thank you for visiting the plantations and getting the message out there. It really helps us learn the ugly truth of the past and helps create awareness to the topic. Nottaway is a good one to visit also, they talk about the the plantations that had silver coins put into the banisters and what that meant.

I didn't take the Whitney Plantation tour with you both, but I felt the sadness coming from both of you as if you both had heavy hearts.

I have been to a plantation in the south, visiting the slave cabins also hit very hard .. just the imagination of those people living there… a lot to process.. thank you for sharing..

That was so sad and heartbreaking. I’m sure I would’ve cried on that tour

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

There were definitely tears shed

Who is cutting onions at 7:26 am my heart breaks for how people were treated and is still be treated.

Great video sorry about the flight! Can wait till you see lecrae

Super fantastic ❤

Thanks so much for the honest take on these plantations. I’m the same I want to see both sides of the stories. And Sherri and I are spice sisters. I think black pepper is spicy!!!

Very interesting

Nawlins, y’all! 🤗❤️

Oh how I wish we had time to visit the plantations. We actually thought we had an extra day in front of the cruise but we don’t 😅 see you soon!

Lake Charles great place. Welcome to Texas you are so close.all the food looked so good. Sleep well. That bridge my brother one nite his team heading home ran across a gator. They gang together and got it safely to a better place. He said was not easy. But needed to be done. So watch out for friends with teeth. Have safe travels.

About 40 miles from oak Alley is Nottoway..very big antebellum home. In Natchez Mississippi there all many old antebellum homes..also on the Mississippi.

So interesting! I recently watched a documentary on the politics during that time period. I don’t know why I didn’t remember this from school, but I was shocked that slavery lasted 244 years! I didn’t think it was that long!😞

I lol’d at the Audio A reference 19:30

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Ha! Glad someone else appreciated it

As much as yall travel, invest in some Bose sound canceling over the earphones. So worth it!

Yes, when in New Orleans and surrounding areas they do call you sweet names. Names for things do get pronounced differently like pralines. In Texas, some of the HEB stores are super nice. The newer ones. Some are older and dull.

Welcome to my home State ❤

Love your videos always “honey” 😉 😂😂😂😂

❤❤

The way you talk about the experience of Whitney Plantation sounds a lot like our experience at the National Civil Rights Museum. It's hard and heavy, but something everyone should do.

omg that's braithwaite manor

Love this vlog the Plantation was very enjoyable. Those Mickey ears in the shop were so cute, I would have snatched them up in a minute. Hope you guys get plenty of rest! ❤ 😊

Loved the Mickey earrings in the gift shop! You mentioned Sherri had recently read “Till Death” - who’s the author? More details about the book please?

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

The author of Till Death is actually one of our LeggLife community members! Her name is Breck Suzanne.

@alicezamora7308

Жыл бұрын

@@LeggLife thank you!

When I lived in Florida, I often heard people say that you have to go north to go south. The further north you are in FL, the more Southern the culture is. 😆

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, that makes total sense having been there!

Watch Roots!

Is there free parking?

Cravat is french for tie

President Lincoln is my favorite president! No urge to visit property that treated people like they did..

Alligator feet were back scratchers

Love this! Oak Alley has been on my bucket list for so many years. And I think I heard you right… you’re staying in Lake Charles? I’ve been to Louisiana twice in my childhood bc my dad was a construction superintendent on a couple of stores in Lake Charles, one being a Walmart.

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we stayed in Lake Charles for one night passing through! If you do a plantation tour we REALLY recommend Whitney or Whitney and Oak Alley. We think the story Whitney tells us absolutely necessary

The baby probably was colicky because of the air pressure

THANK YOU. I want to take my only Granddaughter (only grandchild) who is A BEAUTIFUL BI-RACAL YOUNG LADY on a tour of many Plantations. I need her to be proud of who she is & understand what happened.. I get so emotional just thinking about slavery. But we must teach & REMEMBER TO NEVER LET HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF. MAY GOD GIVE REST & PEACE TO ALL WHO WENT THROUGH THIS TIME IN AMERICA INCLUDING THE CIVIL WAR. AMEN GOD BLESS FROM JULIE WEST CENTRAL INDIANA FARMLAND ✝️🇺🇸😊🙏🚜

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

I have no doubt that there will be many tears and many emotions when you visit Whitney. It’s the kind of place we will never forget

People saying pray-line instead of prah-line drives me crazy haha. Louisiana invented them so they know best!

Wow. Your video really inspired me to learn more about the slavery in the US. I’m not American, I’m from Israel. Obviously, I’ve heard about the slavery and the civil war, but not the specific details, and it really made me think that I should educate myself more about that part of history. Especially when you said that it reminded you of the holocaust museum. I’ve had holocaust survivors in my family, and at least third of the people of my grandparent’s generation in Israel were holocaust survivors. I’ve heard many stories and met many people, and many families are still living with the trauma. So much of human suffering begins with people not seeing others as humans too. Thanks for taking us with you to this experience, and I’m going to look for a book or a documentary about slavery now.

Florida is considered "The Bottom" not the south. Unless you're in northern Florida like the pan handle. That's the south.

It is a struggle to see how curated Oak Alley is to help people avoid the ugliness that lived there for so long. Even the gift shop is sanitized and full of pretty things. I understand why you went, but I don’t know that I could do the same. That land holds the history of all of the atrocities committed upon it and as beautiful as it is, the reality is so heavy.

@WorldsOkayestBot

Жыл бұрын

Those who forget the past are destined to repeat it. We should give people reasons to visit horrible historical sites, to teach them of why these things should never be repeated.

@kristin6338

Жыл бұрын

@@WorldsOkayestBot choosing to spend money or time on a plantation that works to sanitize the past is the not my version of remembrance. That being said, we all choose for ourselves how to acknowledge what happened. I

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

We actually talked a long time about this exact thing. We considered just doing Whitney because of that. However, our thought was that by making a video that included both, perhaps people who are looking for Oak Alley (which is significantly more visited than Whitney) information on KZread would get a view of both, rather than the (highly) sanitized version of just Oak Alley. We would do both of them, we would do just Whitney, but we would not do just Oak Alley.

@WorldsOkayestBot

Жыл бұрын

@@kristin6338 you can choose to look at it as sanitizing the past, or you can look at it as giving people a reason to want to come there in hopes of learning something. I just tend to be more charitable with my perception of peoples intentions. Perhaps I’m naive. Perhaps not.

@kristin6338

Жыл бұрын

@@WorldsOkayestBot I am not questioning Adam and Sherri’s intentions. I am simply stating my own, very personal view. And I don’t think you are naive. The solemnity of the Whitney experience seemed to be purposefully missing at Oak Alley. And I don’t think that ugly history has to be made pretty to make it palatable for people who might otherwise deny it. People are not owed comfort when confronting a history of brutality and oppression.

I’m still watching the video but wanted to point out that around 19:27-19:32 where you mention the trees. Let’s not forget that slaves were hanged very often so I’m sure those trees tell a different story that isn’t quite as “amazing” as you described.

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Without a doubt you’re correct. And the gardens that today are filled with beautiful flowers is land that was tilled by the sweat and blood of those who were enslaved. We certainly tried to not hide that fact in this video.

Too much gab and not enough Plantation.

@LeggLife

3 ай бұрын

I’m definitely a gabber. Thanks for watching and i hope your day is filled with kindness and joy!

I fell asleep at the wheel after not sleeping the night before. please do not do this

@LeggLife

Жыл бұрын

Oh gosh! No falling asleep at the wheel for us!

@brendalea1606

Жыл бұрын

@@LeggLife i see you made it safe. have fun!

If those trees could talk 😢 ❤️‍🩹 I’m grateful to my ancestors without them I wouldn’t be here. 🫶🏾