A man was horrified when he discovered a former ' slave cabin' listed as accommodation on Airbnb - and it even had rave reviews.
Wynton Yates took to TikTok after finding the listing for the property in Greenville, Mississippi, and described it as making a 'mockery' of slavery.
He explains that the wooden shack where slaves would have lived has been glammed up with a four-poster bed, running water, and electricity.
It still sits next to the 'big house', but guests are welcome to go into it to eat and one person who stayed there described it as 'historic but elegant'.
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Taking to TikTok, where he uploads as @lawyerwynton, Wynton said: "This is not okay, not in the least bit. I know people will be saying you're looking for controversy where it doesn't exist, no - this is an 1830s slave cabin that is up on Airbnb as a bed and breakfast.
"How do I know this is slave quarters other than just using my eyes and looking at it? Well, they say it in the listing - 'this particular structure, the Panther Burn Cabin, is an 1830s slave cabin from the Panther Burn Plantation'.
"How is this ok in someone's mind to rent this out, a place where human beings were kept as slaves?"
Wynton then goes on to explain that the property is rented by a man named Brad, who is a 'superhost', and reads some of the reviews - which describe it as a 'cool spot' and 'way better than a hotel'.
He continued: "What really kills me is the reviews - 'memorable, highly recommend watching the sunset, we stayed in the sharecroppers' cabin and ate in the main house'."
He then reads another which describes it as 'elegant'.
He continues: "A slave cabin is elegant?
"The history of slavery in this country is constantly denied but now it's being mocked by being turned into a luxurious holiday spot."
Wynton's video has been viewed over 2.6 million times and the listing, which has since been removed from Airbnb, has been slated in the comments.
One viewer said: "My jaw literally dropped."
And another asked: "What the hell?"
"Why does everything turn into Disneyland," another user added. "I’ve gotta get out of this place."
A spokesperson for Airbnb said: "Properties that formerly housed the enslaved have no place on Airbnb. We apologize for any trauma or grief created by the presence of this listing, and others like it, and that we did not act sooner to address this issue."
The spokesperson added that they had removed the Mississippi listing in question, were removing listings that are known to include former slave quarters in the United States, and are "working with experts to develop new policies that address other properties associated with slavery".
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