Related video above: Airbnb’s temporary “No Party Rule” is now permanent Mississippi has been removed by Airbnb, and the company apologized for the listing on Monday. The owner also apologized, saying the cottage listing was a holdover from the previous owner, who banned it from social media and property rental accounts until the TikTok post went viral. “Properties that once housed slaves have no place on Airbnb. We apologize for any trauma or grief created by the presence of this listing, and others like it, that we failed to act sooner to resolve. this issue,” Airbnb said in a statement provided to CNN. The company said it was removing other listings that included former slave quarters in the United States and developing new policies. New Belmont Plantation owner Brad Hauser also apologized for the listing. in Greenville, Mississippi, I apologize for the decision to offer our guests a stay in the “slave quarters” behind the 1857 antebellum home that is now a bed and breakfast. I also apologize for insulting African Americans whose ancestors were slaves,” Hauser said in a statement to CNN. In a now-private promotional video posted to YouTube by the former owner, the cabin was reportedly moved. several years ago on the plantation in Panther Burn, Mississippi, and was initially a two-bedroom sharecropper’s cabin that was converted into a doctor’s office. Hauser said in his statement that he “strongly opposes the decision to the previous owner to market the building as the place where slaves once slept after toiling in the cotton fields in human servitude.” Hauser tells CNN he has no plans to rent the building again. Joshua B. Cain is listed as the former owner in 2021 property records reviewed by CNN Hauser says Cain did not transfer ownership of the online advertising assets associated with the plantation until after s the start of the controversy. CNN has reached out to former owner Joshua Cain for comment. “It’s not OK at all,” Wynton Yates said late last week in his TikTok video. Yates became aware of the Airbnb post when his brother shared it in their family group chat. His original post had been viewed 2.6 million times by midday Tuesday. “How is it acceptable in someone’s mind to rent this – a place where human beings were kept as slaves – to rent it as a bed and breakfast?” Yates, a New Orleans entertainment attorney, asked in his viral post. Yates, who is black, told CNN that renting the remodeled cabin is “a blatant upgrade from this atrocity of just disrespecting and mocking what is slave experience because we are in a country where we still suffer the repercussions of slavery.” In his first TikTok video about the property, Yates said he was particularly upset by the guest reviews. “We stayed in the cabin and it was historic but stylish,” a guest wrote in a review shown in a screenshot in the video and read aloud by Yates. “A slave cabin is elegant,” he repeats, incredulous. “The history of slavery in this country is constantly denied, and now it’s being mocked by turning it into a luxurious vacation spot,” he said on TikTok. While some viewers of his post called for the destruction of these buildings, Yates said in a later post that he believes these buildings should remain. Yates told CNN that it is up to plantation owners or those wishing to purchase them to research the slaves who lived and worked the land so that an accurate account of history can be given. He said attacks on teaching an accurate history of slavery and attempts to erase history would cause future generations to think slavery was a myth. working to find experts who can help him identify the people who lived and were enslaved on the Belmont Plantation to provide an accurate account of the story.
Related video above: Airbnb’s temporary ‘no party rule’ is now permanent
An Airbnb listing for “an 1830s slave cabin” has been removed from the rental site after a TikTok video about the property went viral.
The Panther Burn Cottage located on Belmont Plantation in Greenville, Mississippi, was removed by Airbnb, and the company apologized for the listing on Monday.
The owner also apologized, saying the cottage listing was a holdover from the previous owner, who banned it from social media and property rental accounts until the TikTok post went viral.
“Properties that once housed slaves have no place on Airbnb. We apologize for any trauma or heartache created by the presence of this listing, and others like it, and that we did not act sooner to solve this problem,” Airbnb said in a statement. statement provided to CNN.
The company said it is removing other listings that include former slave quarters in the United States and is developing new policies.
New Belmont Plantation owner Brad Hauser also apologized for the listing.
“As the new three-week owner of The Belmont in Greenville, Mississippi, I apologize for the decision to offer our guests a stay in the ‘slave quarters’ behind the 1857 antebellum home that is now a bed and breakfast. I also apologize for insulting African Americans whose ancestors were slaves,” Hauser said in a statement to CNN.
He also said he was told when buying the cottage that it was not a slave quarter because the building was not old enough to house slaves.
In a now-private promotional video posted to YouTube by the former owner, the cabin is said to have been moved years ago to the plantation in Panther Burn, Mississippi, and was originally a two-bedroom sharecropper’s cabin that was converted into a practice. medical.
Hauser said in his statement that he “strongly opposed the former owner’s decision to market the building as the place where slaves once slept after working the cotton fields in human servitude.”
Hauser told CNN he has no plans to rent the cabin again.
Joshua B. Cain is listed as the previous owner in the 2021 property records reviewed by CNN.
Hauser says Cain did not transfer ownership of the online ad assets associated with the Plantation until after the controversy began.
CNN has reached out to former owner Joshua Cain for comment.
“It’s not acceptable at all,” Wynton Yates said late last week in his TikTok Video. Yates became aware of the Airbnb post when his brother shared it in their family group chat. His original post had 2.6 million views as of midday Tuesday.
“How is it acceptable in someone’s mind to rent this – a place where human beings were kept as slaves – to rent it as a bed and breakfast?” Yates, a New Orleans entertainment attorney, asked in his viral post.
Yates, who is black, told CNN that renting the renovated cabin is “a blatant upgrade from this atrocity of just disrespecting and mocking what the slave experience is because we are in a country where we are still living the repercussions of slavery.”
In his first TikTok video about the property, Yates said he was particularly upset by customer reviews.
“We stayed in the cabin and it was historic yet elegant,” one guest wrote in a review shown in a screenshot in the video and read aloud by Yates. “A slave cabin is elegant,” he repeats incredulously.
“The history of slavery in this country is constantly denied, and now it’s being mocked by being turned into a luxurious vacation spot,” he said on TikTok.
While some viewers of his post called for those buildings to be taken down, Yates said in a later post that he believed those buildings should stay.
Yates told CNN that it was up to plantation owners or those willing to buy them to research the slaves who lived and worked the land so that an accurate account of history could be given.
He said attacks on teaching an accurate history of slavery and attempts to erase history will cause future generations to think slavery was a myth.
Hauser, the new owner, told CNN he was working to find experts who could help him identify the people who lived and were enslaved on the Belmont Plantation to provide an accurate account of history. .
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