Plantations Are Hallowed Ground
4 min readJul 6, 2020
On reverance and reckoning.
In the June 2020 issue of Vanity Fair, the profile of Janelle Monáe was intensely inspiring. Included was this halting passage about Southern plantations: Girard Bush, who cowrote and directed the movie Antebellum with Christopher Renz, in which Monáe stars, says,
“It was an incredibly difficult experience for her. These plantations — where people are…
