“With my background as a historian, I imagined what the ‘plantation’ had been before the Civil War—coffle, rape, torture. Perhaps we should stop calling these places plantations and start calling them by a more accurate name—enslaved labor farms.” —from
Robert E. Lee and Me by Brigadier General, ret. Ty Seidule
It’s unreal.
I thought I had prepared myself but it turns out that I haven’t.