The Coliseum in Rome saw people being deliberately killed for sport or fed to lions (and it wasn't just Christians being sacrificed).
How about Mayan ruins that were used for human sacrifice?
Where does this crap end?
When people stop giving in to these childish demands.
A blunt, vulgar, terse "F**K OFF!" can go a long ways.
Good point. Very few monumental structures in the ancient world, the pre-Columbian New World, ancient Asia, and India were built without slave labor in one guise or another.
If we exclude every place that experienced slave/serf/indentured/exploited labor, fancy wedding venues will be limited to the set of Sanford & Son.
How about Mayan ruins that were used for human sacrifice?
Where does this crap end?
When it becomes widely known that the land under the NYT building is sacred ground.
. By 1703, more than 42 percent of New York City households held slaves, often as domestic servants and laborers. This was the second-highest proportion of any city in the colonies after Charleston, South Carolina.
...Slave being burned at the stake in N.Y.C. after the 1741 slave insurrection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_York