Plantation Where 14-Year-Old Slave Was Hung To Become Outlet Mall
The site of a Maryland plantation which is renowned by local historians for its connection to Black history and to the Civil War has lost its historical designation and is on its way to becoming an 85-store outlet mall, after an early January vote by the Prince George’s County Historic Preservation Commission.Salubria is the name of a Maryland plantation, where in 1834, a 14-year-old slave girl—possibly influenced by Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in South Hampton, Va., in 1831—poisoned her master’s children and was later sentenced to death.
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Seems like a poor business decision as well as a disregard for history. ALL the outlet malls I've visited recently, without exception, are in obvious decline.