TikTok user calls out Mississippi ‘slave cabin’ listing on Airbnb
Earlier this week Airbnb removed listings of properties that enslaved people used to live. This comes days after a TikTok user went viral after talking about a “slave cabin” listing in Mississippi that was shown on the website as a bed-and breakfast.
Wynton Yates, a lawyer from New Orleans criticized the company posting screen grabs of the listing promoted as “The Panther Burn Cottage at Belmont Plantation” in Greenville, Mississippi. The structure was described as an “1830s slave cabin” that was used as a “tenant sharecroppers cabin” and a “medical office for local farmers and their families” according to USA Today.
“If you were to see just the pictures of the inside of it, you’d have no idea (of) the history of that building, and I think for me, that is a mockery of the experience,” Yates told USA TODAY. “It is the continuation of erasing what the experience of slavery was.”
The property and former plantation changed owners in July. The new owner, Brad Hauser says it had been a doctor’s office, however, not slave quarters, and that it was “the previous owner’s decision to market the building as the place where slaves once slept,” which Hauser said he “strongly opposed.”
Airbnb says it removed the listing and others known to include former slave quarters in the U.S.
“Properties that formerly housed the enslaved have no place on Airbnb,” Airbnb said in a statement sent to USA TODAY. “We apologize for any trauma or grief created by the presence of this listing, and others like it, and that we did not act sooner to address this issue.”
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