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MECKLENBURG COUNTY, North Carolina (WBTV) – A description of a racist event, promising to tell the story of defeated white refugees and Confederate soldiers, was abruptly removed on Friday by the historic Latta Plantation after a widespread backlash.
On its website and on social media, the Living History Museum promoted the $ 25 event, called Kingdom Coming, which was scheduled to start at 7 p.m. next Saturday, June 10, the public holiday. which commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the United States. . It’s not clear if the event is canceled, but organizers have removed promotional material. Latta Plantation is located in Huntersville, just outside of Charlotte.
We must not support any business or organization that does not respect the equality, history and truth of the African American peoples’ journey to freedom. Despite the intention, words matter. And the historic Latta plantation should know better.
– Mayor Vi Lyles (@CLTMayor) June 12, 2021
The description of the events, which did not recognize the significance of June 19, began with lines of a dismal spiritual slave, according to some scholars, is lined up with the Underground Railroad: Swing low, sweet chariot, coming to bring me back at home.
The billing of the event is sympathetic to those who owned slaves as a result of emancipation, and wrongly downplays an unnamed slave owner to an overseer, referring to him as a massa. The post on the Latta Plantations site also refers to the freed but inexplicably omits that blacks were enslaved in the United States for nearly 250 years. Instead, the museum website refers to slaves as former serfs.
The description of the event said attendees would hear about a slave owner who had been driven from his home by the Yankees and his former slaves, who now lived under the weight of the pig, a reference to better cuts of meat, which white slave owners deprived blacks of. having.
White refugees have been displaced and also have a story to tell, we read. Confederate soldiers returning home express their feelings about the fall of Confederation.
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– Mecklenburg County (@MeckCounty) June 11, 2021
This is not the first time that the plantation in the Charlotte area has come under fire. In 2009, a black tour guide selected three black students from a predominantly white group of schools in Union County to help them piece together the lives of slaves. Latta Plantation officials said there was no malicious intent.
A spokesperson for Latta Plantation could not be reached for comment on the Observer on Friday, but an operator previously told a reporter that a statement would be released.
Historic Latta Plantation is located in Huntersville, just outside of Charlotte. (HISTORIC LATTA PLANTATION)
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