Multiple vacation units’ descriptions openly advertised that they formerly housed enslaved Black Americans, according to a new report.
Airbnb has come under fire after reports that the popular vacation rental website has multiple rental listings available for units that were once slave quarters.
The scandal was first exposed in a viral TikTok video posted this week by entertainment and civil rights attorney Wynton Yates, known on the platform as @LawyerWinton. Yates highlighted a now-deleted listing in Greenville, Mississippi at “The Panther Burn Cottage @ Belmont Plantation,” in the video.
As seen in the video, the unit’s description openly advertised that it was a location where enslaved Black Americans were forced to live in the 1830s. It was later used as a cabin for sharecroppers, and eventually as a medical office.
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