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Black joy on deck this weekend as the Ancestors have Spoken. The Nottoway Plantation, a monument to Southern grandeur built on the backs of enslaved Black people, has been destroyed by a fire that raged for nearly 40 hours beginning late May 15. The inferno gutted the 160-year-old estate-turned-resort, once the largest antebellum mansion remaining in the South. Black Social media reacted with jokes and memes, with some coming in person to take pictures in front of the inferno.

They did not go unchallenged as the clapback from those who will always find a problem with Black joy or Black celebration of any kind tried to make the argument of preserving our history in between racist barbs and tropes.

The fire that engulfed the Nottoway Plantation House on Thursday devastated the building along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Iberville Parish President Chris Daigle said on social media. Nearly a dozen fire departments from surrounding towns battled the blaze, he said. No injuries were reported.

In recent decades, the property was marketed as a wedding venue and luxury getaway—complete with plantation balls—without so much as a public reckoning with the atrocities committed on its grounds.

Once a house of horrors, the Nottoway Plantation eventually rebranded itself as a museum, only to be repackaged again as a luxury resort. What was once a site of brutal slavery became the Nottoway Resort, complete with wedding packages, guest suites, and even a tennis court. Plantation tourism disguised as Southern charm.
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