BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honour on the National Register of Historic Places - but don’t look for many mentions of slavery in the government’s official record of places with historic significance. The National Register of Historic Places lists more than 95,000 sites that are important to the story of theUnited States. Yet even its entry in the National Register, completed in 1992 before the current owner purchased it, doesn’t mention the slaves who toiled there. Congress established the National Register of Historic Places under a 1966 historic preservation act aimed at co-ordinating preservation work and highlighting the nation’s most historic sites. They may have built it.”The historical blindness about slavery and enslaved people isn’t limited to plantations in the National Register.

Source: thestar February 23, 2020 14:26 UTC