The Simulated Plantation
Coming June 19, 2026 (Juneteenth)!
The Simulated Plantation, A Connecticut Engineer in the Antebellum
When computer engineer Cory Sergeant agrees to test a time-travel simulation, she intends to visit the day of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech but instead finds herself in an extreme simulation of an 1860 cotton plantation. She must playact the part of her avatar, a newly arrived white male tutor, in order to survive while trying to find a way out of the sim, which feels all too real. But as a young Black woman, slavery horrifies her, and she struggles to secretly better the slaves’ lives without bringing catastrophe down on herself and every person on the plantation.
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