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Built decades after slavery was abolished, actually seems out of place for its size and style.
Maybe they liked the old slavery style?
"It's just a fact of life", you know.
Dumb question but what is slavery style? Like it seems like everyone else can immediately tell, but by looking at the house I personally don't know enough to be like "that house is a slave era house". Is it just the architectural style? Or is there a different tell? Thanks in advance I'm ignorant and dumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebellum_architecture
It's a specific style dating back to the era of slavery. A lot of old plantation-type houses in the South have the style, and it's... grotesquely romanticized in some corners as a more 'rustic' time.
Maybe they meant a more 'rusty' time, what with all the chains and manacles and whatnot.
That's cursed lol
Got it makes sense! Thanks, this made some other things I've heard click into place.
Big parlour.
Large number of rooms.
Display of wealth and status in a rural area.
I feel like if you were going to own human beings then you would want to do it while living in an Antebellum Style home.