End Slave Plantation Weddings
Healing and repair can’t happen while we still disrespect Black people
It’s been commonplace and even chic for white people in the South to have their weddings on beautiful vast plantations. The scenery. The open air. The historical houses and barns. The charm.
If you Google “weddings on plantations in Mississippi,” you won’t get articles about what transpired there. Instead, you’ll get endless promotions of how wonderful it would be to book your wedding.
Brandon Hall Plantation. The Belmont 1857. Desert Plantation. Beauvoir.
Just to name several.
Named one of the “finest antebellum houses in the deep south,” Brandon Hall Plantation is advertised as a secluded historic estate set over rolling hills. It’s been called “picture perfect.” “Unparalleled.”
This plantation proudly invites would-be wedding guests to “take a step back in time and experience firsthand life in the 1800’s [sic].”
The good ol’ 1800s.
The Belmont advertises to would-be wedding planners its “rare antebellum architecture,” “hand-fired…
