Charleston Plantations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although slavery was a repugnant part of American history, to compare a plantation to Auschwitz or any other death camp is reprehensible and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust.

I don't think there is any good to come out of trying to say what horror is worse. I think what people mean when they compare a plantation to a death camp is that to discuss the beautiful homes and gardens of plantations without acknowledging the awful history is problematic.

[Anonymous]

Plantations are a part of history. Mount Vernon for example. But the definition of plantation does not necessary mean slaves. A large farmer and farm in the South was a planter and plantation. Even if only the owner worked it. Time for a little political correctness here. Thank you

[Anonymous]

Boone Hall Plantation was beautiful and educational. A must see!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Although slavery was a repugnant part of American history, to compare a plantation to Auschwitz or any other death camp is reprehensible and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust.

Thank you. ITA.

I don't at all. Approximately 12 million slaves brought from America. As many as 2.5 million died on the middle passage. And it persisted for over a century.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Although slavery was a repugnant part of American history, to compare a plantation to Auschwitz or any other death camp is reprehensible and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust.

I don't think there is any good to come out of trying to say what horror is worse. I think what people mean when they compare a plantation to a death camp is that to discuss the beautiful homes and gardens of plantations without acknowledging the awful history is problematic.

+1

[Anonymous]

With all due respects, my family owned a plantation in the Deep South and my Father can remember the children of our families slaves coming by to visit during family reunions and other times. The older ones were addressed as uncle .., or aunt ..,, not this big divide we see today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With all due respects, my family owned a plantation in the Deep South and my Father can remember the children of our families slaves coming by to visit during family reunions and other times. The older ones were addressed as uncle .., or aunt ..,, not this big divide we see today.

Oh yes the slaves were HAPPY to live in bondage. Are you freaking kidding me??? You are a huge part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With all due respects, my family owned a plantation in the Deep South and my Father can remember the children of our families slaves coming by to visit during family reunions and other times. The older ones were addressed as uncle .., or aunt ..,, not this big divide we see today.

I'm not totally sure what your point is. Acknowledging our awful shared history doesn't divide us. Sweeping it under the rug and not seeking to understand is what divides us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Although slavery was a repugnant part of American history, to compare a plantation to Auschwitz or any other death camp is reprehensible and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust.

Thank you. ITA.

I'm Jewish and I think you need further education on the aims, intentions, and death rate of the slave labor death camps (I refuse to call them plantations).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all due respects, my family owned a plantation in the Deep South and my Father can remember the children of our families slaves coming by to visit during family reunions and other times. The older ones were addressed as uncle .., or aunt ..,, not this big divide we see today.

Oh yes the slaves were HAPPY to live in bondage. Are you freaking kidding me??? You are a huge part of the problem.

Not to mention you are probably all related. It was pretty common for white plantation owners to force relations with enslaved women

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You may not be a Southerner but as an American or at least someone who lives in America you do have to face our terrible shared history. Not many plantations have done a great job acknowledging that they (and by extension the whole country) were built on slavery and at worst totally gloss over it. People rent plantations for their weddings, which is pretty astonishing and in terrible taste. So that's why people were giving you a hard time.

Not in Charleston but if you really want the real plantation experience you should travel to Louisiana and the Whitney Plantation- this article calls it America's Auschwitz.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-americas-auschwitz-180958647/

I had never planned on taking a plantation tour, but I am in NO for business and pleasure in August. I will definitely take my 11 year old. Thank you for posting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although slavery was a repugnant part of American history, to compare a plantation to Auschwitz or any other death camp is reprehensible and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust.

Plantations were also labor and death camps for millions. Instead of a quick death at Aushwitz, the plantations offered a brutal, torturous, slow death. Auschwitz wasn't the first Holocaust and it wasn't the last.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The same can be said of slave plantation tourist sites in the Caribbean. People are clueless.

Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, wrote a great book in 1944 on how slavery enabled the capitalist system (i.e. Britain/London). He was well beyond his time.

https://www.amazon.ca/Capitalism-Slavery-Eric-Williams/dp/0807844888

Guess some of these posters wouldn't visit the pyramids either, since paid workers didn't do the manual labor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
George Washington's Mount Vernon was a plantation. Slave labor and slave quarters. Yet, Mount Vernon remains a very popular tourist spot.

Charleston has a variety of historical tours. A plantation tour would make a nice day trip if you want to combine history, architecture, etc.

It's very sanitized. Also, people go to MV and Monticello not for the plantation experience, but because it's the homes of dead presidents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With all due respects, my family owned a plantation in the Deep South and my Father can remember the children of our families slaves coming by to visit during family reunions and other times. The older ones were addressed as uncle .., or aunt ..,, not this big divide we see today.

Youre right; I'm sure it was all a lot better back then, without the 'big divide' we see today.