The Root; Published By: Wayne Washington
I’ll take my reparation payment in the form of Boone Hall Plantation, please.
Boone Hall is a sprawling plantation located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Today, it offers tours so the curious can get a glimpse of what it was like during antebellum days when Black people were enslaved and white people got richer than Midas from their free labor.
The place is so scenic Ryan Reynolds and Black Lively got married there. Not sure how they didn’t know about the beatings and rapes that likely took place there during slavery, but they’ve since said they’re very, very sorry for using a place of horror as a wedding venue. Read more
