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After receiving backlash for allowing an "1830s slave cabin" to be listed on its platform, the company apologized on Monday.
Wynton Yates, a civil rights attorney, uploaded a video to TikTok last week calling out the cabin, its owner, and the guests that stayed after seeing the tasteless and now- deleted listing.
Yates said in the video that the history of slavery in this country is being denied and that it's being turned into a luxurious vacation spot.
The company went on the defensive after realizing it had made a mistake.
The properties that used to housed the enslaved have no place on the website. We apologize for any trauma or grief caused by the presence of this listing, and that we did not act sooner to address this issue.
The reviews are airy as if the listing wasn't bad enough.
One review was captured in Yates' video. It's highly recommended to watch the sunset.
We ate in the main house while we were in the sharecropper cabin. Breakfast and the house tour were both great.
The place where slaves were forced to live is something these people don't know about.
The interior of the cabin has been gentrified, with an updated, modern interior that ignores the terrible living conditions that were once provided to slaves.
Brad Hauser blamed the previous owner of the cabin for marketing it as a quarters for slaves, even though it had originally been a doctor's office, in an interview with The Washington Post.
"I don't want to make money off of slavery."
The listing probably shouldn't have been put up in the first place.
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