Category: Slavery

Nottaway Plantation Burns to the Ground and Illustrates Some Histories Are Not Worth Preserving

.Reading time 6 minutes.

On May 15, 2025, the South’s largest surviving antebellum house burned to the ground, sparking debate over the legacy of American chattel slavery. Only a smoldering façade remained, inspiring celebration and memes shared on social media by people glad to see the symbol of human subjugation reduced to rubble and ashes. Completed in 1859, the 53,000-square-foot home […]

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Ta- Nehisi Coates responds to Mitch McConnell on reparations

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“It’s not a good idea.”  Asked where he stood on reparations in response to an upcoming hearing, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, said, “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.”  When asked by a reporter about […]

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Oppression as History

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There are persons who think that slavery is a distant memory, an ugly part of world history that need not be looked again and certainly not talked about.  It is easy to place a record of oppression in a book and close it.  It is better to open our eyes and see the stories of […]

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