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This fine new WAPO piece on pushback against frank discussions of slavery at historic plantations reminds me of one of my favorite stories that I heard working with @BlainRoberts1 on *Denmark Vesey's Garden*...

#twitterstorians #slaveryarchive

washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0…
...It was relayed to us by an excellent African American tour guide named Sandra Campbell. She recalled giving a private tour to an elderly white couple who had hired her to drive them around downtown Charleston and then out to Middleton Place plantation. Apparently unaware...
..that Campbell incorporated slavery into her city tour, the husband objected when she observed that the first white settlers to Charleston brought enslaved Africans with them. "I don’t think we want the city tour,’” he announced to Campbell, "Let’s just to go the plantation"...
...The irony of asking to visit a plantation to avoid slavery was lost on him, though perhaps with good reason. He had been taught to view plantations as sites of romance and gentility—as gardens, as they were often advertised. See, for instance, this Magnolia plantation postcard
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Ethan Kytle
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Happy Robert Smalls Escape Day!

Neo-Confederates love to "remember" imaginary black Confederates.

I prefer to honor the hundreds of thousands of enslaved people like Robert Smalls who liberated themselves during the Civil War by escaping to Union lines.

157 years ago today...
...in the early morning hours of May 13, 1862, the enslaved seaman Robert Smalls seized his and his family’s freedom by commandeering a Confederate ship in Charleston, SC.

After sailing out of the city’s well-defended harbor, Smalls surrendered the vessel to the Union...
..fleet that blockaded Charleston, earning fame across the North and infamy in the South.

Smalls, now a free man, spent the rest of the war sailing ships for the U.S. navy and army. Once the war was over, Smalls became a leading figure in South Carolina politics...
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