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Selling slaveryBy Kyle Stock
The Post and Courier
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Charleston has long made its fortune by bringing people here. Today, it's tourists. Centuries ago, it was slaves. Both have been thriving industries, though Charleston has long denied the costs of human bondage. Now 200 years after the importing of human cargo was banned in this country, the long-neglected history is a source of new interest — and business — for visitors searching for the antebellum South. Carefully preserved plantations are sprucing up their slave cabins, Charleston's sole art museum has produced a wide-ranging exhibit focusing on slavery and plantation life, and the city has restored and opened to the public one of the markets where people were once sold like sweetgrass baskets. For more see Sunday's Post and Courier. |
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Posted by blah_blah_blah on July 26, 2008 at 11:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I understand what they mean when they say that plantations are "sprucing up their slave cabins." But I can't help but see the irony in that sentence.
Posted by flame711 on July 26, 2008 at 11:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Let us remind everyone that the slaves were sold by the kings in Africa to the people who brought them here. Resale product (not exactly right..but none the less)
Posted by blah_blah_blah on July 26, 2008 at 12:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Let us remind everyone that we bought slaves (people) from the kings in Africa.
Its not exactly right, but that sentence makes it sound like you it was ok because someone "sold" them to the plantation owners.
Posted by geekguy2008 on July 26, 2008 at 2:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Blacks should be angry at their OWN race for selling them in the first place.
Let us remind everyone that back in Moses' days, whites were slaves BEFORE blacks....put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Posted by blah_blah_blah on July 26, 2008 at 3:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
geekguy,
Then YOU should be mad at whites, and how dare you get mad at me just because I am white, and my great, great, great, great grandfather enslaved yours. You are so selfish......moron.