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Hate_Gatekeeping t1_irxehob wrote

Reply to comment by -Horatio_Alger_Jr- in What's your opinion on renaming Plantation Street because it's racist? by [deleted]

Quinsigamond Plantation was the name of the first european settlement here. The name Quinsigamond itself has nothing to do with colonization and everything to do with the local natives.

You are using false equivalencies to support a very flawed argument.

As far as "today's slave labor", it has nothing to do with foreign slavery and everything to do with an attempt to correct mistakes of the past, and to not glorify any references to those mistakes. Its the exact same reason why confederate statues should be removed from public lands.

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[deleted] OP t1_irye4rc wrote

You think Plantation Street's name - and remember, before the 1800s, farms were called plantations - is the same as a Confederate statue?

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thisisntmynametoday t1_iryitjo wrote

Many Nipmuc and Wampanoags were sold into slavery during the colonial years, especially in the aftermath of King Philip’s War.

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[deleted] OP t1_irz19j5 wrote

So then your problem is with the history of the region. That has nothing to do with the word "plantation."

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Cheap_Coffee t1_is0z5cy wrote

More correctly: as a *result* of wars.

It was standard practice in those days to sell any (indigenous) prisoners taken during the wars. Most were shipped out to the Caribbean. They were not, by and large, used as slaves locally -- there were already more than enough indentured servants on hand to do the work.

This also started well before King Philip's War.

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