At 11:19 AM 2/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I believe that a plantation could be interpreted without the actual
>working of the "slave".  As it has been done at Middleton in South
>Carolina and at Carter's Grove Plantation in Williamsburg.  You may
>want to contact Carter's Grove as they have a very active black
>participation in their re-enactments.  They re-enact and tell the
>stories of people past at their living quarters.  It is well done and
>an enjoyable experience.  The re-enactors of Carter's Grove are
>excellent presenters.

But isn't that distorting history?  The Africans who worked on the
plantation were most definitely slaves.  Some of them had it real good,
living better than poor, free whites and some of them were treated worse
than abused animals.

Why is the use of the word "slave" such a bad thing?

Deb