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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.
Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected]
Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected]
Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]
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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.
Got it makes sense! Thanks, this made some other things I've heard click into place.