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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An antebellum party is racist because it is a celebration/replication of the lifestyle of the uber wealthy, slave owning, white people living on plantations in the pre Civil War south.  These people owned and amassed their wealth, and were afforded this opulent lifestyle and their parties because they were slaveowners and amassed ridiculous wealth by owning other human beings.

Why would anyone have a party to celebrate this dark chapter in american history?  Not a great choice for a theme for a party.  Do you understand?[/quote]

An antebellum party is about the clothes.  I've never been to one, but I can tell you that is what I see.  It also includes mint juleps.  Lots of them.[/quote]

It is very specifically about the clothes that the richest and most elite class of southerners wore.  So everyone goes to the party dressed like elite, wealthy southern plantation owners, aka people who are wealthy from human slavery.  [/quote]
Yeah so?  Ever heard of [b]the Society for Creative Anacronism. where people dress up in the clothes of Medieval elites [/b]who were wealthy due to human serfdom, the second worst thing in the world, next to slavery?  What about toga parties?  That's where you dress up in the clothes of an ancient Roman elite that got wealthy based on slavery and world domination.  Do we have to stop all that too?[/quote]

My college roommate was very active in the Society for Creative Anacronism. Her character was "Dorcas," a serf. They don't all play elites, and they know an amazing about about life in the middle ages.

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