• red_stapler [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Heh, usually these sorts of tours are “Our slaveowner was nice to their slaves.”

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Huh, you are right.

      In Tucumán (Argentina) you can go visit a plantation museum where the tour guide mindlessly tells the "fun" story about "the silly slaves workers! believing the legend of "the familiar", a hellish dog loyal to the plantation owner [oligarch surname still in charge of course] that would eat 'troublemaker' workers."

      Like, the fucking idiot tells that story joyfully blob-no-thoughts , no man-made projectile could ever pierce the thickness of that skull god damn

    • Othello [comrade/them, love/loves]
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      1 year ago

      the worst is when white people say "at least he was a nice slaveowner" when I talk about my families history and how i am set to inherit my land. After slavery ended in the country he gave my ancestors each a bit of land, they were the few slaves in the country that kept trying to have an uprising mind you.. The implication is always clear. you should be grateful.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I recognize the guy in the pic from a Townsends video of all places, so if this was Gunston Hall and they're cool with him and his politics then they must be relatively cool too

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, and this guy is a culinarian and historian so he's guested on there a couple times

          • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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            1 year ago

            that's cool. i think i might have seen one of those guest appearances before. yeah you never really know the vibes right off for something like a historical cooking channel from people into reenactment living in bumfuck indiana

            • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Townsends is good, at least as far as it's possible considering the amerikkka subject matter. For the most part they do a more small-cabin vibe and survival food so the topic of slavery doesn't actually come up much, but they've done a few episodes about slave-created cuisine and aren't shy about the history when it does come up.