re: #21 lawhawk

This.

All of this.

I’ve been to Savannah, Charleston, and VA, visiting several plantations and historic sites. At least you can’t help but ask who built the homes for the owners. Were they compensated? Nope. They were enslaved persons. Did they have a say in working the fields or enriching the people who owned them? Nope.

The entire southern economy was based on the premise that white folks could indefinitely own blacks PEOPLE, and treat them PEOPLE accordingly without care or consequence.

There are some who romanticize that and seek to regain what was lost after the South lost.

Sorry, I had to change the above. Because this is what I think every time slavery is mentioned. I dont ever think of slaves as being blacks (while they were)…I think of people, human beings.

Fucking southern white people owned other fucking people. Sold their children.

I’m 60 years old and I still cannot wrap my mind around that. Or that some people today think of this as no big deal. It’s a big, BIG fucking deal.