Why They Keep The History of Nottoway Plantation Hidden

Aren't there more present day things that should be fixed rather than history of 1 mansion. It wasn't unique. Lots of southern estates were the same. Even northerners kept slaves after slavery was repealed. Focus on righting things today.....not 200 years in the past!

In your opening narrative you used to turn dark history why are you using descriptive word as dark that relates to people of color as being undesirable when it was white people that committed this atrocity please do not use that word again dark to describe crimes against humanity.

Very true.. sad how people dismiss the workmanship of slave labor with tataria myth .. england got sugar from here next .. queensland australia blackbirding islanders as slaves for same

Really nice to see a comment section that actually passed the vibe check on this topic.

Louisiana history! Very covered up! North Louisiana is the worse!! Shady Grove massacre is hidden!

African American....???
Wtf

It's no different than the 👉 black community 👈 HIDING the FACT africans captured africans from neighboring tribes and SOLD THEM OUT into slavery to the european ship owners at the coast of africa .

Trying to be constructive, but if you cannot pronounce words properly, why not get another person to narrate? Eg:
You are saying "Rand-alf" for Randolph, "Nortaway" for Nottaway and I heard brefftaking among other mutilations of the English language. Informative otherwise. Thank you.
Add: You definitely emphasize the slavery aspect and how hard the work was, but an argument could be made that even in today's world, regardless of skin color, American workers are still mercilessly exploited, overworked, oftentimes exposed to dangerous working conditions. Has it really changed? I mean, honestly, how much freedom do we really have?

Someone was trying to silence the horrors of the plantation. Arson

God doesn't like ugly.... The enslaved ancestors' plea has been answered! 🙏🏾

It's white history too.

My grandfather's mom was raped by a owner and his sister is the product of that.

THANK YOU ANCESTORS👐🏾👏🏾

These plantations should remain for educational purposes due to our young generation nor older doesnt have a clue and it has no impact on them. Having events here is insane. More schools should do field trips, talk about this. Where I went to school they ONLY taught us about Malcolm, King, Evers, Rosa Parks & touched on NAACP. I learned about slavery from watching the movie Roots. When I visited the M. Hotel King was shot at it was an eerie feeling. I read about it saw videos on it, yet I wanted to visit the site due to the history behind it! Its very sad and disgusting how so many blk ppl lost their lives during this era and still today. Harsh conditions, being torn away to be sold, assaulted, punishes. Please watch the movie Antebellum came out in 2020. This still goes on today. We as any race need to educate ourselves on history. You too may become a missing person in a todays reenactment of the Civil War. Met a lady in FL that goes to these every year, she was proud of being a part of it. Check your state usually held in the summer, (July) I was surprise. Then we wonder why there are so many ppl going missing. Everyone stay prayed up and safe.

BELMONT MANSION TN IS SICK TOO

Thank you! Great history lesson. I learned a lot unfortunately this is a similar story of most in the south!

Thanks!

Could you imagine all the lost souls trapped there, and now they are set free 🥲

Good! 🏛🔥😊

It's revolting to me that it's legal to hold weddings or other events at former slave plantations. Not to compare tragedies, but many countries had the decency to repurpose concentration camps as museums to educate people on the past rather than allow weddings to take place there. America needs to follow that same example.

It’s literally so sad that nobody knows the actual history behind the people who were enslave their names ,there stories , family generations Ive search everywhere hoping this video finally found the actual history yes we already know it was a sugarcane plantation . All we know is about the house what about the stories of the families

Thank you for your perspective on this

Anyone else see the woman standing in the window in the press photo while the plantation was burning?

Western Marylander here! We had an old house in our area that served as a US UNION Army hospital. It was later turned into a restaurant. It also burned to the ground! YANKEE here! NEVER repurpose any place where massive suffering and death happened! NEVER! It is highly disrespectful! 🤔🤔🤨🤨🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🫡🫡🫡🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

I live in Louisiana and everyone was sad about it. I was happy! I don't understand how these places still exist and are still profiting from slavery! I understand that learning history and places like this can be important but the fact that they host weddings and parties or are a bed and breakfast never sat right with me. Bye bye I hope they never rebuild🤞🏻

A quick google search gave me the 10 oldest/largest plantantions still around.....if anyones "interested" they're on google🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Tragedy! Terrible loss of architecture.

Nottoway looks like there's ,Not to way out of the life of this slave plantation.

I briefly worked as a tour guide there and they had the worst clientele. I felt like a daycare worker.

This is an excellent content creator.
I hope that the location and artifacts can be put to use for the correction of history. Abuses of the past must be acknowledged in it's realities 😢. Our country today has taken every one of us and our varied ancestors, evil and good, prosperous and poor, advantaged and abused. Let's not let all the sacrifices be for nothing 😢❤
The strength of families that lived through slavery, disenfranchised and denial of rights should be very proud

"Black life was indisposable in the pursuit of profits" and still to this day thats how this racist country tries running it. We are from disposable thats why yall go gray and white haired because yall are trying to eliminate Black people and it couldn't ever be done. Stop hurting yallselves trying to hurt us.

Who got the insurance $$ when this place burned down???

This is good

I found several articles on Nottoway Plantation. I found a story of Eliza Jones who lived in one of those slave homes. Her husband stabbed her for allegedly being unfaithful. I found one of the ex-slaves drowned on nottoway plantation. Someone was killed by a train. The place is hunted.

Goodbye wicked house.

I hope that they rebuild it that way to show generations how we whites used to live like celebs.

Speak louder my ancestors let it 🔥

Beautiful place , ugly history 😪

I love it

Plantations hid lynchings and rapes. I view plantations symbols of racism and exploitation.

I have so many problems with plantations houses. As a historian I wish they were used as tools of education, where people could visit and pay their respects while being educated on what actually happened at the homes. Done so in a tasteful way where if any money was made it could go back into the community. And I’m please to have learned about the Whitney plantation. But usually they’re treated as “oh pretty house!” And people have weddings and vacations there. The whole thing is distasteful and disrespectful to the people who lived, worked, and died at these homes never being allowed to leave and never treated as human beings. I’m glad it burnt down. If you can’t learn and properly teach the history there, then at least the people who suffered may finally rest knowing the site is gone.

Also your choice in background music is wonderful. I’m going to watch more of your videos.

Everything you said I learned already on the tour at Nottoway, it was reinforced by the book I bought in their gift shop. Its roots in slavery were horrible but not hidden. To say they were discredits those good people who made sure its history was in the light. Post cards and weddings may have brought people to Nottoway, but history awaited them there.

Ok so at the top of the house if u look closely it’s looks as if a phenix is coming from the 🔥

House of demons

You sir have created the creme de La creme in the top of any documentary video explanation and everything of what's wrong with. I don't even know how to put it like you said. Romanticizing the old South and trying to bury the evil and sadistic and there's not enough words for me to say to describe that era and even to today our current era

I'm an architecture above but I'm also a history buff and there is a small percentage of me that was sad to see the architectural masterpiece that was built on forced and enslaved labor of black stolen from their home countries. Just anything and everything horrible that that overwhelmingly it doesn't bother me and I say that because I've read way too many posts and hundreds and hundreds of replies and everything on both sides and I overwhelmingly I mean almost 100% agree with those that are glad that are burned down. And I say this because I have seen so many video tours of notaway plantation of Bell Grove. Just a lot of them online and everything and you were so right they romanticized the beauty, the architecture, the antiques, the history of the white man and his lineage and everything else. And oh yeah, the slave quarters over there they get like 1% of any of the tours or anything. But it's a financial white elephant that is not sustainable. And I think there's only a handful of plantations that even do a solid job of incorporating the evil into the perception of good. And those are the ones that are trying to. I guess level the playing field I got to. Just realize this is a run on sentence. I'm sorry but yeah so. In conclusion, thank you thank you, thank you. You now have a subscriber and I'm sharing this on Facebook so hopefully others can be enlightened with your powerful images and words

Thank you

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Informational.

Because the buildings aren’t to blame. You can’t just get rid of history because you don’t like it

It hurts my heart when it come to slavery because i will never kno if i had relatives or not but also our people period i dont get how can u make a law to own a body is crazy to me how they get away with it smh but expect us to forget and forgive we forgive but we just will never forget 💯