Opinion | Forget confederate statues — plantations are still fueling white supremacy
for export were used to make nine tiny cabins where the slaves were forced to live for decades until emancipation. Boone Hall is just one of many similar tourist-attracting plantations., but people who are old enough to get married surely know what they're doing when they choose a plantation as their venue. In their minds, the beauty of the plantation outweighs its dark history and the atrocities that occurred there.
And while many of these plantations have added educational elements about their role in slavery, even arguing that weddings and other eventsThe owner of Boone Hall, Willie McRae, told the Charleston Post-Courier in January that he's "not ashamed" of holding weddings on the property and most of the people at the plantation for events don't care to learn more.. "They're more interested in the beauty of the place.
Those who admire confederate statues claim that tearing those statues down is somehow erasing the past, but the repurposing of plantations as wedding and party venues is a blatant effort to erase and ignore the past. It's clear that at plantations, people are actively trying to forget the actual history of white supremacy in this country and are thereby contributing to it. Continuing to use plantations as anything other than educational tools is one way to forget the atrocities that happened there.
I'm not calling for the destruction of plantations. They could simply operate as museums, potentially funded by taxpayers, similar to how other places of national suffering and tragedy have been made into
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