The article reflects on a lunch in New Orleans where the author, noticing differing reactions to historical plantation imagery, highlights the mythologized narratives surrounding the Southern plantation system. It discusses the Nottoway Plantation, which has been repurposed as a wedding venue without addressing its past as a site of slave labor. The piece critiques how former plantations often erase the true historical context, romanticizing spaces linked to significant human rights violations while neglecting the actual experiences of those enslaved there.
"The history tab of Nottoway's website provides a detailed listing of the diameters of certain oak trees but nothing about the plantation's true history."
"Nottoway Plantation, like many others, has turned into a site for weddings, lacking any significant reference to the atrocities that occurred there."
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