[Rockingham]

The now lost massive plantation house was made possible by sugar cultivation. Like cotton, sugar was a high value crop in the antebellum South. Both required the brutal heavy labor that slavery facilitated.

[knarf]

All true. yet as man, created in the image of God, has created within himself first and produced second, great and wonderful things, we should preserve such things that our legacy may learn of itself by knowing its past.

I don't trust modern history teachers to deliver a truthful comprehension of what man has done.