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Dachau Labor Camps Should Open For Slave Plantation ‘Style’ Weddings, After Nottoway Fire — MAGAs
Which One Makes For A More ‘Traditional’ Wedding Venue?
Slave labor camp weddings, or ‘Plantation’ style weddings as we fondly refer to them, are a pretty common occurrence in the South. So you can imagine how sorry for the fire half of America was, and how sad the MAGAs were when they heard that Nottoway, “The White House of the South,” which had billed itself as a luxury plantation wedding destination, had gone up in flames.
I remember the first time I drove through Charleston, S.C., and learned that the main attraction in town was the Old Slave Market. Southerners are enterprising like you won’t believe. Plantations down there had been profitably operating “converted” former slave quarters as boutique “Bed & Breakfast” experiences for years until very recently, when everyone got shy, quite literally out of nowhere.
Why would a person want to have an ‘experience’, let alone host a wedding, in a venue where high concentrations of death and suffering occurred? The following is some of what I’ve been told: Trigger warning
- Let bygones be bygones
- I am getting sick and tired of the…