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Monument to slavery burns down.
Only awful people are sad.
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Good job, Arthur, they deserved it.
"He ordered all his slaves to build his house. " "Randolph backed the Confederacy financially once the war began. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottoway_Plantation
Everyone give an offering to the god of fire in thanks
Vesta’s wrath woke in the hearth
I once renovated a house in Atlanta that had been built in 1843. We gutted the inside and removed the original lath-and-plaster walls. In the center of every wall in the house, we found a flattened rat embedded in the rough plaster and covered over undetectably with the fine plaster. They didn’t smell at all after 150 years, but that house must have stunk to high hell when it was first built. I don’t know whether slaves were used for urban construction in Atlanta, but I like to imagine this was enslaved workers striking back the only way they could.
Naturally enough, this house was on Confederate Avenue (since renamed).
It might also ve been something to do with superstition. I once read in a book, that back in the day they always buried something living when constructing a new dyke on the north sea coast. Like a stray dog or something, just built it into the dyke. Because they believed it would make the dyke stronger.
I’ve done a lot of old house renovations, but this was the only time I ever found rats in the plaster.
That lady has no idea why anyone would say such mean things
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