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Originally Posted by LakeMan45
"Cracking whips over his slaves" seems to be from the perspective of the slave too. You are making a distinction without a difference. No rational person would view "cracking whips over his slaves" as a good thing for the slaves.
I don't recall my visits to Charleston as a kid the history being about "aristocrats drinking mint juleps" or slavery being presented as a sweat deal for the slaves. The only difference between yesterday and today is there is an attempt to guilt trip white people living today who had nothing to do with slavery. That's the point of these articles.
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No tour guide has ever used that terminology, but if you don’t believe there was ever a time when a lot of white people, as descendants of slaveholders, relished the version of the story they were getting and visualizing control of the enslaved in a less than realistic way, think again. To me, whitewashing is trying to infuse nostalgia into the story of slavery. The nostalgic approach has been superseded by stories of the realities of slavery in Charleston and the U.S. in general, including northern states in the beginning.
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