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(Gerald Herbert | AP file photo) Visitors walk outside the main plantation house at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La., in 2017.

(Gerald Herbert | AP file photo) Visitors walk outside the main plantation house at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La., in 2017.

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