All plantations are death houses. Idc how you dress them up, renovate and add paint, show pictures of weddings there. You can never erase the history or the stain that place leaves on the world, history or a person’s soul.
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Frankly, unless they're going to display them as they were; with the sounds, smells, sights, and screams of slavery, they have zero business existing erect.
I went on a formal plantation tour by the national Parks department in South Carolina. It was fantastic, revealing the sad truth about where slaves were buried in unknown graves, along with a great presentation using Gullah terminology. Depressing, informative, and factual. Go!
They were all death camps. Look at the Caribbean, where most people in chains were actually sent. How would millions and millions go to such small places? Because they would last only a few years before succumbing to the nightmare of the refineries and fields.
That’s what powered every revolt, people desperately fleeing for the mountains and fighting for decades even to survive and get others out. In the US they kept people alive but took everything from them and used the one drop rule to keep the gate shut tight.
It reminds me of parents of the Inca cutting their children’s hands off, to prevent them from being sent to die in the silver mines of Petosi, a million people died in that toxic hell.
Some places are not for happy occasions. It is ok to preserve some horrible places as a museum to teach future generations about atrocities that should never happen again (not a place for a wedding). Many court houses and government buildings share this horrible history. We need to do better.
Museums are important to preserve historical facts. Museums often use all fees/donations to maintain the museum and create education programs. Not to diminish the need for true acknowledgement, change,and corrective action.
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Black babies were used as alligator bait during Jim Crow
If you don't want to go back in time and murder you great great klu klux klan grandparents, I'm not sure there's any hope for you.
They’re not just for black churches anymore.
Be a real shame if the history of antebellum slavehouses was erased, just like black history is being erased by the white nationalist party.
“Hey, it’s just a reenactment of “Gone with the Wind”
Built on the bones of human beings
A chamber of Horrors
Republicans are nostalgic
For the times of Human Bondage