Description
From Plantation to Prison is a digital archive and interpretive exhibit that explores the layered history of the site now occupied by the Rivers Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hertford County, North Carolina. Built in 2001 as a private federal prison for noncitizens and closed in 2022, RCI was constructed on the grounds of the former Vann Plantation. Today, a prison watchtower overlooks an antebellum cemetery, embedding the legacies of slavery and immigrant incarceration within a single landscape. This project invites visitors to engage with the dissonant temporalities of plantation and prison, offering a space for public history, pedagogy, and reflection.
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1590 to Unkown
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