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[quote=Anonymous]There's a meaningful difference imo between using a venue that was once a plantation and having a "plantation wedding."

Arbitrarily, I think it matters if the place is called a "plantation" now. It just feels different. I also think it matters what has happened at the property since then and why it was preserved/turned into a venue.

This is kind of like the statues issue. It doesn't only matter what bad things the person did in their life, it matters what about their life the statue is there to celebrate/remember. The same thing can be true of a house imo.

OTOH, I remember enjoying a wedding at Whitehall in Annapolis. It's a beautiful, colonial-era house and they put a tent on the lawn going down to the Bay. I don't think there's any preservation of what must have once been a big farm - I think it's just the house and garden. Slavery, which presumably happened there, was not mentioned by anyone. In retrospect, maybe that's a weird vibe to have going on at your wedding. I could certainly respect someone feeling weird about it. It says something important about what we choose to preserve/point out about a place. [/quote]

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