Today started off rough because of the long bus ride to get to Charleston. I was not expecting that ;however, after visiting the McLeod Plantation and the Trade Museum it was worth the struggle. The McLeod plantation was interesting because it had the original slave houses still presents. It was shocking to see that the slave houses were small or smaller then what I have read about in textbooks. Also, the plantation had African Americans leaving in the slave house until 1990. I would have thought that we would have been more advanced and upgraded considering that the 1990s was more modern then the slavery period.
Furthermore, the trade museum made me question whether or not the government was making policies in favor of the slave traders because they made rules and policies that were easy to go around. For example, it said you couldn’t purchase African slaves but you could purchase other slaves. Then you could no longer trade in public which basically was saying to tr traders that “you could trade but just do it privately.”
Thank you for writing! I am glad you are already learning a lot!
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