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A fire destroyed a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation last week.

A fire destroyed a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation last week.

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Fire at Nottoway Plantation ignites online celebration, painful reflection

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the combusted landmark lit the internet ablaze with mass jubilation and consternation over the weekend.