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The Nottoway Plantation fire reignited national debate over how slavery-era landmarks are remembered. Reactions were split, with the Black community calling the destruction a form of payback.
A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?
With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big ...
Nottoway’s first owner had 155 enslaved ... That’s why it’s hard to ignore the symbolism of the largest remaining antebellum plantation mansion burning to the ground during an era in which ...
After the nation’s largest antebellum mansion, Nottoway Plantation, burned to the ground in an unexpected and devastating fire, the owners are sharing what’s next. Last week, just days after ...
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage ...
It seemed like an appropriate time to visit Nottoway, which in many ways is emblematic of how some want to whitewash America’s fraught history with race.
There is no question, the enslaved workers at the Nottoway Plantation during the antebellum era were human chattel. They were unpaid and unable to leave. They had no property rights, no rights to ...