up coming event at magnolia mound
Reimagining Louisiana: The Afro-Franco-Creole Protest Tradition and Education, 1685-1896
After the Civil War, Louisiana ratified the most progressive state constitution in the South, one which forbade segregation in public schools. The school integration and public accommodation provisions of the 1868 constitution were a century ahead of their times. This presentation will trace the origins of this radical egalitarian vision by examining the long history of education in Louisiana from a transatlantic perspective. Louisiana is situated at the crossroads of the transatlantic. The creolization of Indigenous, African, European, and Caribbean cultures resulted in an Afro-Franco-Creole protest tradition that saw "public" education as critical to human equality. While most histories of education of the South, and particularly Louisiana, begin after the Civil War, this presentation traces the “long” history of education beginning with the Jesuits and Ursulines educational mission in New France among both Indigenous and African peoples, the impact of the Haitian Revolution on education in New Orleans, the emergence of Afro-Catholic education through the Sisters of the Holy Family and Catholic Institute for Indigent Orphans, and the battle for public integrated education after the Civil War as advocated by the The Tribune, the first daily African American newspaper in the United States.
Hendry Bio
Petra Munro Hendry is Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge where she has taught in the College of Human Sciences and Education as well as in Women’s and Gender Studies for over thirty years. She has conducted several oral history projects including the history of Old South Baton Rouge, the historic African American community in Baton Rouge, as well as an oral history of Lutrill and Pearl Payne, the first African Americans to integrate the graduate school at Louisiana State University. Most recently she has completed fifteen years of archival work investigating the long history of education in Louisiana to bring to light the role of enslaved Africans, free people of color and Indigenous peoples in shaping an Afro-Franco-Creole protest tradition that envisioned education as critical to human equality. This research culminated in her most recent book Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World 1685-1896 (University of Michigan Press, 2023) which was the winner of the 2023 American Educational Research Association Division B Outstanding Book Award. She is the author of Old South Baton Rouge: The Roots of Hope (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2009), Engendering Curriculum History (Routledge, 2011) and Pedagogies of Resistance: Women Educator Activists, 1880-1960 (Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1999). In 2006 she received the Preservation Honor Award for Education, Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation; in 2009 she was a recipient of the Regents Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars; and in 2014 she was a Woest Fellow in the Arts & Humanities, Historic New Orleans Collection.
After the Civil War, Louisiana ratified the most progressive state constitution in the South, one which forbade segregation in public schools. The school integration and public accommodation provisions of the 1868 constitution were a century ahead of their times. This presentation will trace the origins of this radical egalitarian vision by examining the long history of education in Louisiana from a transatlantic perspective. Louisiana is situated at the crossroads of the transatlantic. The creolization of Indigenous, African, European, and Caribbean cultures resulted in an Afro-Franco-Creole protest tradition that saw "public" education as critical to human equality. While most histories of education of the South, and particularly Louisiana, begin after the Civil War, this presentation traces the “long” history of education beginning with the Jesuits and Ursulines educational mission in New France among both Indigenous and African peoples, the impact of the Haitian Revolution on education in New Orleans, the emergence of Afro-Catholic education through the Sisters of the Holy Family and Catholic Institute for Indigent Orphans, and the battle for public integrated education after the Civil War as advocated by the The Tribune, the first daily African American newspaper in the United States.
Hendry Bio
Petra Munro Hendry is Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge where she has taught in the College of Human Sciences and Education as well as in Women’s and Gender Studies for over thirty years. She has conducted several oral history projects including the history of Old South Baton Rouge, the historic African American community in Baton Rouge, as well as an oral history of Lutrill and Pearl Payne, the first African Americans to integrate the graduate school at Louisiana State University. Most recently she has completed fifteen years of archival work investigating the long history of education in Louisiana to bring to light the role of enslaved Africans, free people of color and Indigenous peoples in shaping an Afro-Franco-Creole protest tradition that envisioned education as critical to human equality. This research culminated in her most recent book Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World 1685-1896 (University of Michigan Press, 2023) which was the winner of the 2023 American Educational Research Association Division B Outstanding Book Award. She is the author of Old South Baton Rouge: The Roots of Hope (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2009), Engendering Curriculum History (Routledge, 2011) and Pedagogies of Resistance: Women Educator Activists, 1880-1960 (Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1999). In 2006 she received the Preservation Honor Award for Education, Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation; in 2009 she was a recipient of the Regents Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars; and in 2014 she was a Woest Fellow in the Arts & Humanities, Historic New Orleans Collection.
Sunday October 6th from 12:00 to 4:00pm,
You don’t have to go far this fall to find your special pumpkin!
Bring the whole family to attend the Magnolia Mound Pumpkin Patch.
After a stroll through the patch, stick around to enjoy the festivities.
Admission is free, just pay for your pumpkin.
You don’t have to go far this fall to find your special pumpkin!
Bring the whole family to attend the Magnolia Mound Pumpkin Patch.
After a stroll through the patch, stick around to enjoy the festivities.
Admission is free, just pay for your pumpkin.
Welcome to the friends of magnolia mound museum
Magnolia Mound, a nationally accredited museum and historic site, sits on sixteen acres shaded with ancient live oaks and magnolias. Built circa 1790 by John Joyce, who purchased the property from James Hillin, it is the oldest documented structure in Baton Rouge. One of its noted residents in the 1800s was Armand Allard Duplantier, a former captain of the Continental Army under Marquis de Lafayette.
Magnolia Mound believes that in the retelling of its history it is important to also tell the hard stories of our past, remembering the lives of the enslaved whose skills help to build not only our historic buildings, but our state and our country.
After the rescue of the house in 1966, the Friends of Magnolia Mound joined the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC) in restoring the house and its landscape. The Friends helped inspire the Mound’s mission to focus on education through the highest standards in accuracy and restoration.
Along with the house there are five early outbuildings, including a rare circa 1830 cabin for enslaved families and a reconstructed open-hearth kitchen.
For more than 50 years, the Friends and BREC have worked together in a successful private-public partnership that welcomes more than 15,000 visitors each year.
Friends of Magnolia Mound Museum
Magnolia Mound believes that in the retelling of its history it is important to also tell the hard stories of our past, remembering the lives of the enslaved whose skills help to build not only our historic buildings, but our state and our country.
After the rescue of the house in 1966, the Friends of Magnolia Mound joined the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC) in restoring the house and its landscape. The Friends helped inspire the Mound’s mission to focus on education through the highest standards in accuracy and restoration.
Along with the house there are five early outbuildings, including a rare circa 1830 cabin for enslaved families and a reconstructed open-hearth kitchen.
For more than 50 years, the Friends and BREC have worked together in a successful private-public partnership that welcomes more than 15,000 visitors each year.
Friends of Magnolia Mound Museum
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums
- One of only three accredited working museum kitchens in Louisiana
- Renowned for authentic preservation and restoration
The Friends, working with BREC, the Museum Director and staff, assist in implementing the master plan for the structures, landscaping, future additions and changes to Magnolia Mound.
BREC owns and operates Magnolia Mound. All of the furniture, decorative items, and artifacts are owned and cared for by the Friends. This collection brings to life the interiors of the house and other buildings for the community, school groups, and tourists.
The Friends provide advisory and financial assistance for the kitchen garden, which is part of the educational tour at the Mound. Produce from the garden is used for cooking demonstrations in the open hearth kitchen building.
Other structures on the property include the Historic House Museum, Kitchen Garden, Overseer’s House, Quarter House, Pigeonnier, and the Turner Family Visitor’s Center and Gift Shop.
BREC owns and operates Magnolia Mound. All of the furniture, decorative items, and artifacts are owned and cared for by the Friends. This collection brings to life the interiors of the house and other buildings for the community, school groups, and tourists.
The Friends provide advisory and financial assistance for the kitchen garden, which is part of the educational tour at the Mound. Produce from the garden is used for cooking demonstrations in the open hearth kitchen building.
Other structures on the property include the Historic House Museum, Kitchen Garden, Overseer’s House, Quarter House, Pigeonnier, and the Turner Family Visitor’s Center and Gift Shop.
