Historical Estates. Antebellum Hellscapes. Enslaved People Matter

Facing the bitter history of slavery while a big house goes up in flames

So, I understand the most magnificent of sugar-coated hellscapes burned to the ground a few days ago in Louisiana, and perhaps it is the ancestors urging me to write on their behalf today—not about the largest big house in the South, as it was boasted, the Nottoway Plantation. Until its untimely demise, it had been showcased as part museum, part resort…