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[quote=Anonymous]Someone pages back had a good observation. The past has a vote but not a veto poster. There are going to be people who will be offended by it because of slavery and they feel personally affected by it, even 150 years after the fact. But they are likely not offended by a lot of other injustices. So it's a selective offense. But they will still judge you by it.

In other words, you will never win. No matter what you decide to do someone, somewhere, will be offended by it and shame you for it.

Lesson: stop caring what others think. Do what you want to do. If you want to host a wedding on a historic site that just happened to be a plantation in the past, go for it. It means nothing and it represents nothing about your current value because it's an old historic property and a pretty site to hold a wedding. If someone is bothered by it, it's their problem, not yours.

But if you want to host the wedding on an old plantation site because you have a romantic vision of being a plantation belle with lots of black slaves waiting on you hand and foot, then yeah, there is probably something a wee bit wrong with that vision. [/quote]

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