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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSleeping in Former Slave Quarters: Bed and breakfasts in Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and NC
http://bandb.about.com/cs/uniquegetaways/a/slave_quarters.htmSome people decry it as "a slap in the face" to the reality of history; others say the owners of these properties have a right to do the renovations and claim that those offended by it are over-reacting.
In an Associated Press article, Angela da Silva of the National Black Tourism Network said, "That's truly whitewashing slavery." In the same article, Jean-Luc Maumus, the French-born manager of Louisiana's Monmouth Plantation, said, "These are buildings with some history. We are not responsible for the history. The history's there ... Either you live with your past or you destroy it."
At NiaOnline, columnist Jill Kelly pointed out that some inns refer to the slave quarters as "servants' quarters," "carriage houses," or "dependencies."
Oy
malaise
(269,157 posts)into bed and breakfasts.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)*shrug*
FirstLight
(13,364 posts)eeesh!
AnnieBW
(10,457 posts)Or if someone is really into kinky sex.
obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)And tenements and slums are now co-ops and condos. Prisons have been made into homes and work spaces. And, conversely, the sacred have been turned into the mundane.
The only problem I have with this is calling them former "servants'" quarters.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Tutonic
(2,522 posts)So why not join in with the other revisionists and celebrate the glory of humiliating and demeaning an entire race of peoples? C'mon DU, if they can do it in Norway or Denmark, why can't we be perverts too? DU, you need to cleanse this site of adults with an IQ that matches their age.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)if it were used as a way to educate the public.
Especially since the RW works so hard to deny that slavery was as horrible as it was.
And a portion of proceeds could be donated to a related charitable cause.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Tells the history, the conditions, etc.
Education can always be a good thing