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kimreesesdaughter

I just left a plantation tour in Louisiana. I have a lot to say…

purplechocolatekisses

SAY IT!

kimreesesdaughter

I honestly thought I knew everything about slavery. Not so.

The owner of this particular plantation had it built by slaves for 3 years. Every brick was handmade. Over 120,000 bricks on 2,000+ acres of land (this place was huge.) The clay used for the bricks came from the Mississippi River. The majority of the slaves are buried under the Levees and water. Some are buried with their Masters. Not allowed to live with them but could be dead with them.

Before you enter the house, there’s a list of slaves who lived here including their age and how much they were purchased for. 124 total. Some slaves were worth as little as $25. As young as 5 years old.

On this particular plantation, the owner was big on punishment…he used noise making neck restraints. Imagine three 4lb balls around your neck with bells inside. Children were restrained by ankle locks that connected between their ankles.

This was a sugar cane plantation, one the worst practices to involve slaves because of its danger. A lot of slaves were decapitated, amputees and killed from the fields and machinery. A lot of kids lost their lives creating sugar. Speaking of children, a child stood in the living room and operated the fan with a string while guests ate dinner. As young as 3 years old.

Here’s what shook me even further: Before the Civil War, a lot of slave owners were going in debt and could not afford their properties and were not producing enough cotton and sugar to maintain their lifestyles. Slaves were used as HUMAN CREDIT CARDS. Slaves were a guaranteed line of credit. You could get HALF of your property’s value depending on how many healthy and able slaves you owned.

My people were human credit cards and lines of credit to BANKS. We were property. We were labeled as equipment and nothing more.

There is no such thing as a good slave owner. They owned my PEOPLE and used them as checks and balances. This cycle continues with prison and brutality. I do not want to hear shit about “Why can only Black people say this or that?” I don’t want to hear shit about “we’re all human.”

And by the way, not one of those slaves are at rest. Those spirits were so alive, you could feel their presence, their pain and someday, their revenge.

kimreesesdaughter

The front of the house and yard. This plantation was huge. Just thinking about my ancestors tending to all this land…

SOME of the enslaved names, ages, race and purchase price.

The living room.

Interior.

The dining room. That piece hanging above the table is ORIGINAL to the house. That’s the fan that a slave as young as 3 years old had to operate manually with a string.

The view from the balcony in the main hallway. This is how they looked over the slaves while they worked in the yard.

*sigh* Names of the enslaved that occupied the shacks. Children included. Their names are written inside one of the shacks. I’m not sure if there are other names inside other shacks because I could only handle 2. After I saw the punishment equipment, I left.

Slave Shacks. These are NOT the original shacks. These were built to imitate them.

Slaves for Sale Ads.

The landscape of Slavery throughout the United States in 1860. JUST 1860. Let that sink in.

Note: The last time the home was OWNED by a Louisiana citizen was 1972. This is her original bedroom, her lipstick is STILL on the dresser. This is why the house has been updated since slavery times because it was occupied up until 1972. Regardless, this used to be where house slaves slept.

sourcedumal

Jesus.

fluffgawd

The balcony picture really just fucked me up. I’m sick.

kimreesesdaughter

I forgot to mention that this plantation is FULLY OPERATIONAL. Sugar is still being produced here on a REGULAR basis 🙃🙃🙃🙃

driksgirth-blog

This post is like a punch in the eye when you’ve least expected it. Thank you @kimreesesdaughter and please tell me that you didn’t see any Black people working there?

kimreesesdaughter

There were no Black people working there but I wish there were. The woman who guided us through the tour said she was French Creole, she was Halle Berry’s complexion and kept telling us she was dark skinned 😑I was the darkest person there and I was like…🤔There were so many White people and now they think that’s dark skin.

Here’s why Black people need to run this place. It’s a level of respect AND empathy that needs to be there. This young woman was soooo cheerful giving the tour. We were the ONLY Black people there. She SUGARCOATED almost everything. There were young White kids listening. Now those kids are going to grow up and say “Slavery wasn’t too bad.” because she sitting up here talking about how the house was built for love.

Example: She told us there were 20 house slaves. I asked her what determines the difference between a house and field slave (of course I knew the answer). This girl said it was based off if they could sew, wash or cook 😑 NOW YOU KNOW DAMN WELLLLLLLLLL

She also wanted us to believe that the original master who had the home built had 20 house slaves and never touched any of them because there are no RECORDS of “mulatto” children. 1 old White man. 20 Black bodies. Nobody’s stupid.

Someone Black needs to give these tours. The LEAST you can do is let us tell our history in its purest form. Return this land to us somehow.

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@kimreesesdaughter What’s the name of this Plantation?

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FAT PEOPLE LOVING THEMSELVES DOESN’T PROMOTE OBESITY.

FAT PEOPLE DESERVE TO MAKE HOMES OF THEIR BODIES AND LOVE EVERY INCH OF THEM.

FAT PEOPLE DESERVE TO EXIST WITHOUT YOUR HATRED ANYWHERE NEAR THEIR RADIANT SELVES.

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Had two 65+ person events during regular dinner service tonight, and a cake due to donate for a charity auction to raise money for our local animal shelters. I used more chocolate today than Wonka had in his river. No such thing as too much chocolate.

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What the western world is doing to Africa.

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Her name is Mallence Bart Williams.

Y'all need to start giving Black and African women intellectual credit for their work. Not doing so is also a tactic of violent capitalism and patriarchy.

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Please, reblog! IIt’s called self defense. Apart from having here, in the US, one of the highest cases of homicide and rape in the world and high rate of GBV, think about how this could help your mother or sister