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Would you like to buy a house built by “skilled slave labor”?

May 29, 2004


So, I’m reading this booklet that has a list of homes for sale in it with pictures and details. Why? Because it was there. I’m never gonna be in the market (well, not for a long while). I like to look at houses, though.

Anyway, I run across a picture of a home with this description.

This Palladian mansion was built in 1856 by skilled slave labor. It served as a hospital for Confederate & Union soldiers during Civil War & is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Features are 7 B&B rooms, 2 private suites, private BAs w/marble floors, gas FP, & Lg ballroom for private parties & receptions, pool, gazebo, cabana & brick patio. $1,500,000.

At this point, my jaw is on the floor. What the frickin’ heck is going on? “skilled slave labor”? More like forced, unpaid, self degrading labor (probably). I mean, how could someone put that in the ad? Such a lack of tact and such insensitivity and disrespect.

So, while these folks had to build this house in what was probably horrid conditions, treatment and no pay… now people get to enjoy the spoils of their labor? 7 bed rooms, 7 bath rooms, a ballroom, marble floors, a pool, gazebo, cabana and who knows what else?! Disrespectful to the descendent’s of the slaves and as I said, very insensitive. I had to reread it a few times to make sure I read what I thought I just read.

I wouldn’t want to live in that house.

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