194 likes, 5 comments - whitneyplantation on January 30, 2025: "🎶 Did you know that blues legend Pleasant Joseph, better known as Cousin Joe, was born on Whitney Plantation in 1908? In the years after emancipation, Whitney Plantation operated as a wage-labor business. As a child, Pleasant Joseph worked in the same fields where his family had been enslaved for at least 3 generations. But by the 1930s, he became a professional entertainer in the jazz and blues scene, traveling to play with p...
