Abstract
This chapter examines the slave cabins found within Oakland Plantation. It explains that Oakland Plantation is one of the two sites in Natchitoches owned and operated by the National Park Service to convert it into a national historic site. Heritage tourism at Oakland Plantation had several distinctive features, such as its impressive range of buildings and structures and being held in the hand of the Prud'homme family. The chapter looks into the treatment of slavery and slave cabins when the ownership continues to be unbroken. It highlights how Oakland Plantation slavery and the slave cabins were incorporated into the main representations of heritage tourism.
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