When you walk onto the grounds of Middleton Place, one of Charleston’s grand plantations, it may feel like you have walked into the pages of Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind. Being on a Civil War–era plantation invites you to experience the American South before, during, and after the Civil War. Because Middleton Place was home to people on each side of slavery, it allows sojourners to explore lessons found at the intersection of the two: the privileged as well as the enslaved.