Videos of Louisiana's 160-year-old not-away plantation burning to the ground spread like wildfire on social media.

Here's why many of us are still rejoicing.

I'm Leslie, and this is Two-Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school.

Notaway was the largest remaining pre-Civil War plantation.

Enslaved Africans built the 64-room estate 160 years ago.

John Hampton Randolph enslaved more than 150 black people on this sugar cane farm. And although Nottaway Plantation had been a museum a few decades ago,

it was repackaged as a luxury resort

boasting wedding packages, guest sweets, and tennis courts. But the atrocities once committed

there against our people cannot be simply rebranded as Southern Charm. It's probably not a

coincidence than Nottaway burn for 40 hours.

Is it symbolic of the 40 acres in a mule that many of our ancestors would promise but never got?

Or perhaps it's burning is a reminder that plantations aren't playgrounds to be used to profit off black pain.

The Nottaway Inferno feels more like justice than a tragedy.

And the owner?

He's hopeful about rebuilding and committed to not dwelling on past racial injustice.

Their website has no mention of the horrific history of the land or even the names of the people enslaved there.

Look, it'll never be okay to wed, relax, or vacation on the graves of our ancestors.

This fire is a reminder that colonialismality is still so deeply ingrained in this society that perhaps it is time to burn it all down.

In order to move towards a future, you've got to look to the past.

This has been too many Black history, a podcast by Push Black.

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