The Nottoway Plantation, the “largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South,” caught fire
"The loss of Nottoway is not just a loss for Iberville Parish, but for the entire state of Louisiana,” officials said
"The loss of Nottoway is not just a loss for Iberville Parish, but for the entire state of Louisiana,” officials said
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Not a fucking wedding.
Though the LaLaurie place is still around - rebuilt iirc. But its private property.
https://whitneyplantation.org/
http://melroseonthecane.com/
Yes, I’d like that very much, thank you
Given that it spent the last few decades being a focus for white supremacist crap, can we burn the ashes?
Some sort of amends at the very least. Oh but that would be critical race theory and true, therefore banned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3S1-mvzZFw&t=2s
The poor fool started blathering about the erasure of history. Am I the only one that used books and Ken Burns?
Many of them are now the site of state penitentiaries where mostly PoC work for zero or near-zero pay.
There is only one beating black heart of it, yes. And that is it exactly.
But if that is what is in a Trumper’s heart depends on whether they are true believers, selfish knaves, or deluded cowards keeping quiet in the face of evil
https://open.substack.com/pub/noelkeith/p/tranquil-piece-of-mind-vol-2-no-4?r=4c7psw&utm_medium=ios
I hate to tell you but that fella in particular is a PhD in Education and has a masters in statistics.
I dunno if he voted for Trump again after the first time.
(credit to the artist/whoever posted this on twitter a few years back)
"With his red hair, piercing eyes, and fidgety manner, William Tecumseh Sherman has been called a prophet by some and madman by others. But whatever the label, Sherman was one of the reasons the Union was preserved."
Source of descriptive quote: link in image ALT text.
https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3lpbysrpmik24
Such a tragedy.
Tra. Ge. Dy.
Let's respect their privacy and feelings at this time...(or f*ck all the white ghouls who've held or planned to hold celebrations at former slave plantations)
These places should only ever have been museums and memorials, honoring the dead and tortured people who were held captive there, so their stories are never forgotten. Who gets married at the site of such violence?!
2. Is it really so hard to build a new big building that looks like an old big building on some nice plot of land not associated with the worst element of American history and have people get married there instead?
I know, I know
Elon might give it another go.
It's a real mystery, maybe the fire will shed some light on why.
I mean, I keep hearing from a certain subset of folks how well the slaves had it compared to the general population. Figured white people would take those positions.
There wasn't a hand moisturizer in sight!
just turgid and veiny knowing that the most horrible people are devastated at the loss of this place.
"but it's history!" yah, racist history. excuse me while i go stain my boxers thinking about ghosts of the enslaved doing ghost dances all over its charred remains.
the former enslavers’ homes burned down. To hell they belong.
After that, I wouldn’t mind a party celebrating the march to the sea because fuck the slavers is also a good idea
My mom, when she was alive, was fanatically into the old Columbia Masterworks pressing of 'John Brown's Body'. You maybe wouldn't have guessed from looking at her that she was a fervent abolitionist. For some, Sherman never died.
LET THAT MOTHERFUCKER BURN
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May those terrible energies go back to the universe for reassignment.