Dear Ms. Lunelle,
In what has become one of my favorite places to visit, at the invitation and sponsorship of the Augustus Jane Evans Wilson Chapter 2640 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and along with Florida Division of the Daughters who sponsor annually in Ellenton, Florida an event deemed "Plantation Christmas” at Judah P. Benjamin Memorial Site aka “Gamble Mansion” .. I would attend.
It is where a Memorial to Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin is maintained. He took refuge here after the fall of the Confederacy until his safe passage to England was secured.
In 1925 the house and 16 acres were saved by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and donated to the State. It is the oldest building in Manatee County.
The same County that would illegally take down the Confederate soldier’s Cenotaph from the Historic Courthouse in Bradenton.
The one thing that depresses me the most is a White folk guilt woman, Dianne Wallman, who works for the State of Florida would voice on Youtube that we must talk about dark history in reference to Gamble Plantation; coupled with the Black woman, Chandra Bivens Carty whose ancestors (Nelson and Mariah Barton) two former slaves from Gamble who were married..."I wonder if they had to work long hours.”
First of all, what is “dark history”, woman?
Secondly, Ms. Carty, what could you see from your warped and biased mind about your ancestors but the lies depicting them?
And third, so-called “professor” Wallman, Robert Gamble was not the Major Gamble in the Confederate army, you are misinformed, spewing your lies and disdain.
Ms. Carty, I see in your grandpa when I look at the Gamble Plantation, a trained cadre of Black men who built this marvel sitting down to a meal cooked by a trained cadre of Black women and who marveled at what they did. Which, by the way, were the same cadre of Black men who built the implements of war for General Lee's beleaguered army on plantations all around the South.
And it looks like something was going on at the Plantation that brought your
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