Do you understand how many conscious decisions went in to turning the south’s largest plantation house- built by and off enslaved people- into a fucking *resort* and WEDDING VENUE?
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my dream for this site would have been for somebody to turn it into the mausoleum it deserves to be; a silent record of how evil cloaks itself in beauty.
But that wasn’t happening, and this is a pretty good second best.
Right there with you. I work in antebellum history, and I think it’s important to preserve sites like Franklin & Armfield Office. But you don’t get MARRIED there.
There is no way to do a site like that as a venue. None.
And I would say that’s okay- there are ways to do a historical site respectfully, to demonstrate how evil wears a mask of beauty- but they were not doing that.
I remember a glorious thread on the hellsite (in pre-Elmo days) where a US company held their work annual party in an antebellum plantation house. In fancy dress.
And one epic guy went as a slave. He posted photos of his white coworkers looking SO incredibly uncomfortable. It was amazing.
The company and the white coworkers just didn’t think twice about the history of the house or the plantation. They just wanted to cosplay being in Gone With The Wind.
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Let it burn, and let the ashes become the lesson.
But this site was born from evil, and rather than being used today to educate and inform and encourage change in our present,
it was a wedding venue.
you get a list of how old various trees are. There is not a single mention of chattel slavery; of people who were born and died in chains.
I’m celebrating the demise of this particular site because it is still being used to perpetuate evil.
But that wasn’t happening, and this is a pretty good second best.
And I would say that’s okay- there are ways to do a historical site respectfully, to demonstrate how evil wears a mask of beauty- but they were not doing that.
And one epic guy went as a slave. He posted photos of his white coworkers looking SO incredibly uncomfortable. It was amazing.
Epic guy made them SO uncomfortable.
If they were doing their job as heritage sites, they’d be making people think and reflect and learn.