the lavish parties, the feasts, the genteel culture, the clothing and finery affordable only to those who are cannibalizing the sweat, blood and bones of hundreds of thousands of souls.
well the European manors didn't have the enslaved people literally directly in front of the house. I could tell you horror stories about relatives that worked as servants in those damned houses but they didn't actually have slaves in the house
Peasants had it a hundred times better than chattel slaves, though you do have a point. I remember a commentor the other day talking about some Chinese people speaking of the "revitalization of China" as though everyone was an aristocrat under the Ming Dynasty rather than most being a peasant or near equivalent.
they were expecting to hear about the history of the white people that lived there, and a description of the commodities produced by the slaves, maybe even some of the shacks they were forced to live in, and that's it.
I'm much more interested in hearing what they were expecting from a plantation tour.
the lavish parties, the feasts, the genteel culture, the clothing and finery affordable only to those who are cannibalizing the sweat, blood and bones of hundreds of thousands of souls.
it's aspirational for the slime of humanity.
Exactly what most "Discover Historic Europe" tours are
well the European manors didn't have the enslaved people literally directly in front of the house. I could tell you horror stories about relatives that worked as servants in those damned houses but they didn't actually have slaves in the house
Peasants had it a hundred times better than chattel slaves, though you do have a point. I remember a commentor the other day talking about some Chinese people speaking of the "revitalization of China" as though everyone was an aristocrat under the Ming Dynasty rather than most being a peasant or near equivalent.
Chinese people think 95% of their great great grandpas weren't peasants?
I don't know what they think, just what that person said
they were expecting to hear about the history of the white people that lived there, and a description of the commodities produced by the slaves, maybe even some of the shacks they were forced to live in, and that's it.