Following days of criticism, Airbnb has apologized and removed the listing from its platform
Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images Last week, an Airbnb listing advertised by its host as a “bed and breakfast” formatted from an “1830s slave cabin” became the subject of widespread backlash online. New Orleans–based entertainment and civil-rights attorney Wynton Yates made a TikTok criticizing the choice to rent out a former Mississippi plantation’s slave quarters.
. “Properties that formerly housed the enslaved have no place on AirBnB,” a spokesperson for Airbnb said on Monday. “We apologize for any trauma or grief caused by the presence of this listing, and others like it, and that we did not act sooner to address this issue.” Per the Washington Post, the company pledged to rid its platform of any other U.S. properties that are “known to include former slave quarters.
The cabin’s former host, Brad Hauser, took over ownership of the cabin last month and told the Washington Post that it was “the previous owner’s decision to market the building as the place where slaves once slept” and that he was “not interested in making money off slavery.” It’s unclear how many Airbnb listings feature spaces that once housed enslaved people; Mic reports that several such listings in Georgia and Louisiana have been removed.
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