Thursday, June 21, 2012

Slave for a Day

An item on the park service's agenda is raising eyebrows: "Slave for a Day" aims to educate young whelps about Hampton Mansion's slavery history*, wherein servants were fed in troughs, among other activities. As a visitor you'll be able to whip your little sister in the hog pen, wipe the bottoms of other people's children and attempt to “carry buckets of water with a yoke on your shoulders!” ... actually I made some of those up. Next Sunday's event has been renamed the "African American Experience Tour," and if you want to go experience how the 3/5ths of a person people lived for 90 minutes in June, note that the map on the nps' site is wrong, the correct map is below. The tour is 2 - 3:30.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't worry--under the new "austerity" we'll ALL be experiencing this soon enough--without having to drive to some remote Virginia Park.

Anonymous said...

Or you could go to grad school.

Anonymous said...

They are taking these bootcamp training programs way to far

MINISTA said...

What the...?