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Plantation H*ck: Ugly as Sin Edition

What if a building that represents our nation's most grievous crimes was also heinously ugly?

Paul Bowers
Jun 25, 2021
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There is nothing uglier about the South than its past. Occasionally you come across a visual representation of the depravity at the core of it all.

For the latest installment of Plantation H*ck, let’s tour Chicora Wood Plantation, a historic forced labor camp in Georgetown, S.C., that sold for $8.9 million in October 2020.

Originally built in the 1730s by…

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