That Infamous Airbnb Property Wasn’t A Slave Cabin But It Exposed Something Deeper

Essence Magazine:

By Melissa Noel ·Updated August 19, 2022

Popular vacation rental company Airbnb is under fire after a TikTok video slamming a Mississippi property described as a “slave cabin” went viral. 

The estate at the center of the controversy is the Panther Burn Cottage, a small cottage in Greenville, Mississippi. The description stated the building once served as a slave quarters. The posting also claimed it was used as a sharecropper

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