I loved going on the African American Heritage Tour of UA last class. I actually had no idea it even existed. When we visited the President's Mansion it was interesting to actually see the 2 slave cabins in the back of the President's Mansion. I guess just by looking at it no one would really ever consider it being the home for many slaves, so I do feel it is really important to have historical markers outside of them so no one will ever forget why they were actually built.
Trouillot definitely makes you think about the way history is portrayed. It makes your question whether or not we are being told the exaggerated story or the real story. So of course as I was going through the tour I kept thinking to myself, is this tour told how the white people want this tour to be portrayed?
Any how, I really enjoyed the tour and thought it to be very informative. People always remember the scene of Governor Wallace keeping the African Americans out of the University of Alabama on Forest Gump, but I think a lot of people forget that we walk where all this history happened every day.
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