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Journal of Heritage Tourism Volume 11, 2016 - Issue 3: Memory, slavery and plantation museums: The River Road Project
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“She goes into character as the lady of the house”: tour guides, performance, and the Southern plantation

Amy E. PotterDepartment of History, Armstrong State University, Savannah, GeorgiaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 250-261 | Received 30 Dec 2014, Accepted 30 May 2015, Published online: 12 Nov 2015

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Doron Eldar & David Jansson. (2023) Europe as a big house – examining plantation logics in contemporary Europe. Social Identities 0:0, pages 1-19.
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Doron Eldar & David Jansson. (2022) Southering and the politics of heritage: the psychogeography of narrating slavery at plantation museums. International Journal of Heritage Studies 28:3, pages 341-357.
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Brianna Wyatt, Anna Leask & Paul Barron. (2021) Designing dark tourism experiences: an exploration of edutainment interpretation at lighter dark visitor attractions. Journal of Heritage Tourism 16:4, pages 433-449.
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Kamila Bezova & Iride Azara. (2021) Generating and Sustaining Value Through Guided Tour Experiences’ Co-Creation at Heritage Visitor Attractions. Tourism Planning & Development 18:2, pages 226-244.
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Jordan P. Brasher. (2021) Creating ‘Confederate pioneers’: a spatial narrative analysis of race, settler colonialism, and heritage tourism at the Museu da Imigração, Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, São Paulo. Journal of Heritage Tourism 16:1, pages 20-42.
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Candace Forbes Bright, Perry L. Carter, E. Arnold Modlin, Stephen P. Hanna, Amy E. Potter & Derek H. Alderman. (2020) The Local Role of Southern Tourism Plantations in Defining a Larger Southern Regional Identity as Reflected in Tourists’ Surveys*. Geographical Review 110:3, pages 270-298.
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Velvet Nelson. (2020) Liminality and difficult heritage in tourism. Tourism Geographies 22:2, pages 298-318.
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Jayur Madhusudan Mehta & Bradley J. Mollmann. (2020) Reflections on Teaching the History of Colonization, Slavery, and the African Diaspora Using Primary Sources and Historical Fiction. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 9:1, pages 37-52.
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Stephen P. Hanna, Perry L. Carter, Amy E. Potter, Candace Forbes Bright, Derek A. Alderman, E. Arnold Modlin & David L. Butler. (2019) Following the story: narrative mapping as a mobile method for tracking and interrogating spatial narratives. Journal of Heritage Tourism 14:1, pages 49-66.
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Samuel A. Smith. (2019) Heritage tourism and New Western history: a narrative analysis of six Colorado museums. Journal of Heritage Tourism 14:1, pages 1-18.
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Candace Forbes Bright, Derek H. Alderman & David L. Butler. (2018) Tourist plantation owners and slavery: a complex relationship. Current Issues in Tourism 21:15, pages 1743-1760.
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Stefanie Benjamin & Derek Alderman. (2018) Performing a different narrative: museum theater and the memory-work of producing and managing slavery heritage at southern plantation museums. International Journal of Heritage Studies 24:3, pages 270-282.
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Brianna Wyatt, Anna Leask & Paul Barron. (2023) Re-enactment in Lighter Dark Tourism: An Exploration of Re-enactor Tour Guides and Their Perspectives on Creating Visitor Experiences. Journal of Travel Research, pages 004728752211510.
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Stephen P Hanna, Derek H Alderman, Amy Potter, Perry L Carter & Candace Forbes Bright. (2022) A more perfect union? The place of Black lives in presidential plantation sites. Memory Studies 15:5, pages 1205-1231.
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Melaine Harnay. (2022) Slavery and Plantation Tourism in Louisiana: Deconstructing the Romanticized Narrative of the Plantation ToursEsclavage et plantations touristiques de Louisiane : déconstruire le récit idéalisé des plantations-musées. Mondes du tourisme:21.
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Bryan E. Norwood. (2021) Museum, Refinery, Penitentiary. Places Journal:2021.
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Velvet Nelson. (2020) Tour Guide Perspectives on Representations of Slavery at a Heritage Museum. Tourism Culture & Communication 20:1, pages 1-14.
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Derek H. Alderman, Jordan P. Brasher & Owen J. DwyerIIIIII. 2020. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 39 47 .
Aaron Yankholmes & Dallen J. Timothy. (2017) Social distance between local residents and African-American expatriates in the context of Ghana's slavery-based heritage tourism. International Journal of Tourism Research 19:5, pages 486-495.
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