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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if the place is the most beautiful option around, even if they have an excellent program to educate visitors about slavery, I still wouldn't do it. It's tone deaf. They should be used as museums. Period.[/quote]

I would say the only social function that is appropriate there would be reunions of the slave descendants. I see valid reasons for that type of gathering at a plantation.[/quote]

Are you a slave descendant?  I'm not a slave descendant but I'm not sure I'd want to have a reunion at a plantation, if I were.  Maybe others would though.  [/quote]

I am a white descendants of slaveowners at a plantation that is now a government-owned museum. Every year there is a reunion for black descendants of enslaved African-Americans who lived on and around the plantation. I've been a few times. We are some of the only white people in the area who go. Everyone is very nice to us and we have had conversations about which ones are blood relatives, etc. Some of them have told me that some descendants dont want to come and others feel it is important to be part of the history of the place. There seems to be a split in opinion.[/quote]

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