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This July 14, 2017 photo shows two of the 40 statues spread throughout the grounds, titled “Children of Whitney” by Woodrow Nash, in front of one of the slave cabins at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La. Purchased as a real estate investment, Whitney became something else for John Cummings, an 80-year-old white man, as he examined volumes of documents related to the old sugar plantation’s labor force: people inventoried like cattle, women listed as breeding stock. “I was shocked to find that the second most valuable asset was human beings,” he said. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)