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Historic plantations are talking a lot more about slavery during their visitor tours. A lot of visitors don't like it. washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0…
"A Monticello tour guide was explaining how enslaved people built, planted and tended a terrace of vegetables at Thomas Jefferson’s estate when a woman interrupted to share her annoyance.
'Why are you talking about that?' she demanded. 'You should be talking about the plants.'"
'Why are you talking about that?' she demanded. 'You should be talking about the plants.'"
“For someone like myself, going to Monticello is like an Elvis fan going to Graceland,” one review from July reads. “Then to have the tour guide essentially make constant reference to what a bad person he really was just ruined it for me.”
"Stephen Seals, a black reenactor at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, tries not to be disheartened when, once a week or so, visitors walk away after realizing they’re talking with a man playing a slave. Sometimes they sigh or say, 'Not this again.'"
