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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t with the slavery apologists here.  Slavery is America’s original sin. Holding a wedding on a plantation that was designed to hold enslaved Africans against their will and work them to the bone is in extremely poor taste.  It’s like dancing on their graves.

For anyone interested, Henry Louis Gates new PBS series on Reconstruction is really informative.  Many new freedoms for black people were rolled back, they were terrorized, their communities were burned to the ground, and many had to go back to work for their old masters.  These events, along with laws put in place to disenfranchise black Americans, had lasting effects.[/quote]

No one is a 'slavery apologist'.  Plantations were not 'designed' to enforce slavery - not in the way concentration camps were 'designed' to hold victims.  The support of slavery was far more pervasive and systematized through law, culture and custom.  While, for you, the plantation/estate may personify and represent slavery.  Not everyone feels that way.  Having an event at a plantation/estate is not glorifying slavery or whitewashing what happened at a particular place over 150 years ago.    You are looking for outrage where none is needed.

Of course, I'm also someone who can recognize the great contributions made by people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson while at the same time note their hypocrisy and cruelty.  Life is not black and white / all or nothing.  I have have been to many historical sites for events and no one has ever made inappropriate remarks about the history of the place or the people that lived there.

Wft, the plantations where made to separate whites from their slaves. White privilege at it’s finest

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