OP-ED: Not All History Is Worth Preserving: What The Destruction Of Nottoway Plantation Turned “Resort” Reveals About America

OP-ED: Not All History Is Worth Preserving: What The Destruction Of Nottoway Plantation Turned “Resort” Reveals About America

Essence Magazine:

By Jameelah Nasheed ·Updated May 29, 2025

Video footage of Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation engulfed in flames spread fast on May 15 and the days that followed. What was once the largest antebellum mansion still standing in the South had caught on fire. Around the same time the

Melissa Noel
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