octopus_inkNation's largest remaining antebellum plantation burns to the ground
This is one story where I can definitely understand the mixed feelings.
It is rightly satisfying watching a house of horrors go up in flames, particularly so when you’re descended from the people who were tortured and brutalized there.
At the same time, it’s easier to teach history to people when they can interact with it using their own senses, and absent that, it’s much much easier to forget it ever happened in the first place.
Yeah I’m sure the racist assholes booking a weeding reception at that plantation were going there to reflect on its sad history
Things change over time.
There are many sites in the South that were once used for profit and are now used to teach. That can’t happen now with this one, and it’s a loss to history whether you care to acknowledge it or not.
It certainly can happen still with this. And the destruction removes a lot of the monetary incentive for use as an event venue for racists. There are many historical sites in ruins that are used for education