As you can see the main house and its rooms seem so romantic, and they would be if it were not for two important buildings in the complex.
The two buildings are in the last two pictures. They are slave quarters for slaves who served in the house, looked after the horses or worked in the kitchen. The less luxurious buildings that housed field slaves were located near the fields. The two slave quarterss bring balance and remove the romanticism of the grand houses with their luxurious rooms. I appreciate that they have been maintained as they remind the visitors of that deplorable system of abuse.
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The differences in living standards are obvious. When we were kids, the plantation tour probably did not include slave quarters. The recent trend toward more thorough historical accounts is a good thing.
Frankly, I am much more intrigued by historical sites where the lives of the oppressed and disenfranchised are highlighted. These are the people who made our nations what they are today, whose resiliency and passion for life truly defined who we are now.
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