animal_pants

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will you petition to rename it?

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follow-up: in america, the word “plantation” is directly related to slavery, with respect to florida in particular...

“On the eve of the Civil War in 1860, enslaved persons made up more than half of Middle Florida's population.” source: https://www.floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/photo_exhibits/plantations/plantations3.php

... the fact that a company in 1953 named Everglades Plantation Company didn’t specifically own slaves does not mean the name (see: plantation) doesn’t have a relation to slavery, and the source you mention does not reference the company’s origins. So, with Plantations in america’s past and their link to slavery, slash constant reminder that “at this location we kept men, women, and children against their will, in brutal conditions, to to do our work for free while we profited*,” do you still think your city should be named Plantation?

*self-paraphrasing