What does /lit/ think of my description of my vacation in Louisiana?

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What does /lit/ think of my description of my vacation in Louisiana? Anonymous Thu Jul 26 13:51:07 2012 No.2843064 [Reply] [Original]

All through the South I had been made aware again and again of the magnificence of a recent past. The days of the great plantations bequeathed to the brief and bleak pattern of our American life a color and warmth suggestive, in certain ways, of that lurid, violent epoch in Europe known as the Renaissance. In America, as Weeks Hall puts it, the great houses followed the great crops: in Virginia tobacco, in South Carolina rice, in Mississippi cotton, in Louisiana sugar. Supporting it all, a living foundation, like a great column of blood, was the labor of the slaves.

The very bricks of which the walls of the famous houses are made were shaped by the hands of black people. Following the bayous the landscape is dotted with the cabined shacks of those who gave their sweat and blood to help create a world of extravagant splendor. The pretensions which were born of this munificence, and which still endure amidst the soulless ruins of the great pillared houses, are rotting away, but the cabins remain. The black man is anchored to the soil; his way of life has changed hardly at all since the great debacle. He is the real owner of the land, despite all titular changes of possession. No matter what the whites say, the South could not exist without the easy, casual servitude of the blacks. The blacks are the weak and flexible backbone of this decapitated region of America.

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