This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America's earliest engagements with race.

Introduction: New Directions for Research: Bringing Together Public Memory, Early America, and Tourism Studies. 1. Revisiting the Gateway to Bondage: A Comparative Study of the Landscape Preservation and Touristic Interpretation at Sullivan's Island with Ellis and Angel Islands. 2. Remembrance and Mourning in the Native Mid-South: Florence Indian Mound Museum's Past, Present, and Future. 3. Remembering and Forgetting Plantation History in Jamaica: Rose Hall and Greenwood Great House. 4. At the Table or On the Menu at Indiana's Feast of the Hunters' Moon. 5. Slavery in the Big Easy: Digital Interventions in the Tourist Landscape of New Orleans. 6. Don't Mess with (Anglo) Texas: Dominant Cultural Values in Heritage Sites of the Texas Revolution. 7. Bulloch Hall and the Movement Toward a Well-Rounded Interpretation of Antebellum Life in Roswell, Georgia. 8. Rendezvous with History: Grand Portage National Monument and Minnesota's North Shore. Afterword: Memory and Heritage in the "Era of Just Redemption".