In this Jan. 30, 2020 photo, the Magnolia Grove, an antebellum plantation house in Greensboro, Ala., is seen. The home's entry in the National Register of Historic Places doesn't mention its ties to slavery even though visitors can see a display on enslaved people in an old slave dwelling. An Associated Press review found that many register entries for pre-Civil War plantations virtually ignore slavery.
Experts blame a generational lack of concern for the stories of black people and, in many cases, a shortage of records. While some narratives have been updated to include information about enslavement, such changes aren’t mandatory and many have not. The Whitney, which documents slavery at a pre-Civil War plantation near New Orleans, draws tens of thousands of visitors annually and is known for discussing topics that other tourist plantations ignore. Yet even its entry in the National Register, completed in 1992 before the current owner purchased it, doesn’t mention the slaves who toiled there.
Congress established the National Register of Historic Places under a 1966 historic preservation act aimed at coordinating preservation work and highlighting the nation’s most historic sites. Magnolia Grove, a state-owned antebellum plantation home dating to 1835 in Greensboro, Alabama, has a slave cabin that tourists can visit, plus displays about enslaved people, yet its 1972 entry on the National Register doesn’t mention slaves.
Many plantation owners also kept poor records of slave life and did little to preserve reminders of it — another reason for the information void.
emarvelous We have an epidemic of assholes. Can someone work on a cure please?
The pyramids were built on the back of slaves. Does that take away from their historical and structural value?
Properties are put on the NRHP for 1 of 4 specific criteria - significant architecture, association with a significant person, demonstrating a pattern, or archaeological significance. 1/2
So how are you going to change history?
That's not true, it is more that we are ashamed that there were slaves.
If we note our history and places of historical significance, the complete and whole history of the region and climate must be shared and documented. Incomplete history is not history and brushing over the past helps no one.
Here we go again, race baiting. You people never get tired of trying to stir up something.
and other times promote it. as was the case in an old stone 'under ground railroad' hone that was falling apart. then moved to a nicer lot down the street and restored by a company i used to work for.
Its history no matter how you see it. It is what it is. Personal perception of history stagers the growth of intellect for the masses.
This is clearly meant to target people who don’t know any better. Alot of vacations I take to visit historical places. they almost always have reference, or even an entire area, devoted to the history of slavery relative to whatever monument it is
When people say: what have blacks contributed to society? Their lives.
Thats shocking! almost as if they been doing that on purpose.
No
It doesn’t require an “expert” to understand why lol. The story of abolishing slavery has always been to ‘forget and move on’. I figured this out in 5th grade.
Ça c’est pas bon
They want us to forget. Shouldn't be that way but here we are.
How 'bout the White House?
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