Tourist Triggered By Plantation Tour

[WhoIsNumberNone]

[luvs2sing]

1. And this reply..

Written by Michael W. Twitty, culinary historian and author of The Cooking Gene, one of the best books I’ve read in my life.

[link:https://afroculinaria.com/2019/08/09/dear-disgruntled-white-plantation-visitors-sit-down/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0FTJuVdryC5UR0gS3IPzbktWXxNKuO_9d0DjLJV9n_Y5QKZHSusSTS_6E|

[cp]

3. Thank you! Michael Twitty's response is actually awesome.

Powerful, compassionate, whole-hearted. Thank you.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. Oh thank you for posting that!

It was a great read, and I just ordered the book for my husband for his birthday. He will love it!

[luvs2sing]

6. I discovered the book a year ago.

Bought a cast iron skillet and was at the library looking for cookbooks when I saw it. It’s probably one of the best books I’ve ever read.

[appalachiablue]

9. Excellent, thanks for noting Michael Twitty's brilliant remarks

and information, an outstanding educator and asset to American and culinary history.

[GeoWilliam750]

10. Thank you for the link

[The Mouth]

11. Awesome

[Historic NY]

2. Yes history must be Disneyland....

absolutely dumbfounded. I went to the historic sites web page. Did they expect a fully functioning plantation complete with slaves working the fields? Its a house museum complete with surrounding structures dating from the property dates from Revolutionary War to now.The county got it because no one could afford to keep it from destruction and decay. They do whatever they can to interpret the site.

People must be entertained...........


[link:https://www.ccprc.com/1779/Historical-Timeline|]

[appalachiablue]

4. The McLeod Plantation opened to the public as an historic site in 2015

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and the interpretation of the property focuses on African American culture and Gullah heritage, as noted in the site's public information. 'Tourists' need to get up to date, since many historic properties have included significant aspects of slave life and black American history since the 1990s.

*The photo in the TYT Video (above) is of Oak Alley Plantation outside New Orleans, LA. Below is an image of McLeod Plantation outside Charleston, SC. Both have an entranceway ('alley') lined with oak trees, possibly related to the mix up.

McLeod was a former sea cotton plantation outside Charleston on James Island. The area was the site of Revolutionary War and Civil War action including the nearby Battle of Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863 when Union forces led in assault by black regiments, US Colored Troops attacked Confederate forces at Wagner on Morris Island as depicted in the movie 'Glory' (1989). McLeod planation also housed the 55th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, an all black regiment, and it was used as the site of the Freedmen's Bureau office headquarters.

(Wiki) The plantation house standing on the land today was constructed in about 1858 in the Georgian style. Also on the property are six clapboard slave cabins, a detached kitchen, a dairy building, a pre-war gin house for long-staple cotton, a barn, and a carriage house.The plantation is an important Gullah heritage site preserved in recognition of its cultural and historical significance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLeod_Plantation
https://www.ccprc.com/1447/McLeod-Plantation-Historic-Site
https://www.visit-historic-charleston.com/mcleod-plantation.html



McLeod Plantation and historic site, James Island, South Carolina.



Slave quarters at McLeod Plantation.

[luvs2sing]

7. Sounds like they try to do it right.

The lessons people need to learn..🙄

[appalachiablue]

8. Yes, they're committed to educating the public about the role

and importance of enslaved African Americans at McLeod and in the US economy and society at large.

The property website with a 2 min. video (below) has a substantial emphasis on this perspective and how it relates to contemporary life. The complaining tourists from Sicily and Germany, and many others need serious education!

https://www.ccprc.com/1447/McLeod-Plantation-Historic-Site

>McLeod Plantation Historic Site website Excerpt: All of their stories - black and white, enslaved and free - are given their due. After years of careful research and restoration, McLeod Plantation Historic Site invites visitors to embark upon an in-depth exploration of the lives of those people whose stories are essential to understanding Charleston’s complex past and helped shape who we, as a nation, are today.

•Tour the homes and compare the McLeod family home with those built for enslaved families.
•Learn about daily life and the relationships among the men, women, and children who lived and worked here before and after slavery.
•Study the cultivation and importance of sea island cotton.
•Gain insight into the plantation’s strategic importance during the Civil War and the role of the free black Massachusetts 55th Volunteer Infantry in emancipating enslaved people.
•Examine the influence of the Freedmen’s Bureau at McLeod Plantation and throughout the South.
•Trace the emergence of Gullah Culture in the Lowcountry.
•Explore worship and spirituality in the lives of McLeod Plantation’s residents.
•Draw parallels between the changing relationships among McLeod Plantation’s residents and in American society during the 20th century.
•See how people dramatically changed the natural history of the plantation’s landscape through time.

(2 mins). Good, brief introduction to McLeod Plantation Historic Site by an historic interpreter.