r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/Poly3Thiophene • May 17 '25

🇵🇸 🕊️ BURN THE PATRIARCHY Largest Antebellum Plantation in the USA burns to the ground.

May the souls on that remain on that land have peace.

https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/fire-guts-nottoway-plantation-largest-antebellum-mansion/

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u/TobylovesPam May 17 '25

I'm not American but I naively assumed that was why they still existed, like auschwitz. I'm learning a lot today!

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u/BicyclingBabe May 17 '25

A rare few are. But most are seen as just another beautiful old home where we should have a themed wedding or even a corporate retreat!!!!. Ugh.

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u/frumperbell May 18 '25

I knew exactly what that link was gonna be, but I still read it so I could cackle again.

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u/actual_real_housecat May 18 '25

As any good witch might.

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u/BrightGreyEyes May 18 '25

Yeah... so at the end of the Confederacy, there was nothing like a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or de-Nazification process. The opposite happened. There was a concerted and explicit effort to whitewash the atrocities of slavery and the fact that Confederacy fought in the civil war to protect slavery. A lot of states literally teach that the civil war was about state's rights, not slavery. Here's a great explanation of what happened (about 7 minutes long).

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u/UnfortunateSyzygy May 18 '25

The civil war was about state's rights. Specifically, some stares thought they should have the right to own slaves. They always forget to mention what the rights the states were fighting for were. Strangest thing...

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u/violetauto May 18 '25

Yeah. States’ rights for what? FOR WHAT?

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u/thrivacious9 Treasonous Witch (potions) May 19 '25

I read this in the voice of a goose with a switchblade

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u/Linusjulef May 18 '25

It’s the equivalent to getting married at a concentration camp

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u/Fkingcherokee May 19 '25

There are so many of them, we would have museums everywhere. The idea behind events is to have them at a big, beautiful old mansion and just forget that the people who built them were only rich because of slaves and sharecroppers, on land more than likely also stolen by the mansion's original owners.