Saw a movie called The Help. Reminded me of my Grandmother. She worked as a maid for Rosswood Plantation while I was a kid still. My uncles got her to stop (took a lot to make her), when she stopped Mrs. Gean and her husband would come by to try to convince her to come back lol. Big place (rosewood mansion), I'd go with my mother to pick my grandmother up from time to time. I looked it up on google.
"Rosswood Plantation is a historic 1857 cotton plantation mansion. The mansion's Rosswood’s four guest rooms are upstairs in the mansion, with canopied queen or double beds, Oriental rugs and antique furnishings. Each room has a private bath, TV/VCR, air conditioning and electric heat, telephone and ceiling fan.Coffe is served in the morning in the rooms and a full breakfast is served in the main dinning room. Guests receive a tour of Rosewood Plantation and slave quarters. A pool, spa, library of books and videos, piano, stocked pond, and nature trails are also available. The Plantation is open March through October only."
I wondered if they would put the bit about the slave quarters in. It was in the basement, a place where they had chains and stuff. Well I was told it was in the basement, I wasn't allowed to go in there. Something my grandmother told me about working there. They didn't let them eat at the table and so many other stuff but she said she ate the same food before them, slept in their beds, kicked feet on the table, and such like it was her house. When we picked her up we had to knock at the back door, I never went to the front. Didn't even know what the front looked like. Just remember driving by the back area with the view of those two chimneys.
I don't really care for these hollywood movies with the white person helping the blacks patting themselves on the back (cough Blindside), but at least they showed some the nasty side of the white people in that time. Not a lot, no hanging husbands, or burning crosses in the front porch type stuff. I guess I see why Tyler Perry exist now.
Btw Mrs. Gean was one of the nice ones.