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If you would get married at a plantation home but would not get married at Dachau it is because you do not see black people as fully human
Remember, before someone says "but one was a death camp, and the other 'just' a forced labor colony," a) the slave system did result in mass death, and b) Dachau was NOT established as an extermination camp like Auschwitz etc. It's function was actually forced labor, so...
the analogy is apt. Obviously more people did die in Dachau than at any given plantation. But it's purpose was forced labor, as with those plantations. So comparing their functions is fair and asking why we see them differently is too...
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