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Date Posted: 10:39:20 02/09/06 Thu
Author: lump
Subject: Re: grammy
In reply to: a light 's message, "grammy" on 06:05:22 02/09/06 Thu

And when the livestock got out it was ok to keep a woman and your children seperate from your true marraige and seperate her from her friends and family because you keep a roof over her head and give her hand-me-downs from your real family. That's the history I think is interesting - horrible, but interesting. I'm telling you guys, read Feast of all Saints. It's a great story of how things are sickly wrong sometimes but we just go with what we're expected to do - and sometimes we don't have the power to move against the flow.

Stilly - I'm pretty disappointed in the content on slavery in my son's history book. They did a better job of teaching us about that 20 years ago when I lived in CHARLOTTE, NC - and racism still burns down there (unlike here). Maybe they're taming it down for this generation? I don't get it because we have a fair balance of races at our school.

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[> Re: grammy -- 23, 10:46:39 02/09/06 Thu [1]

lump - I think the fact that we're in dubya's 2nd term has a lot to do with our educational standards.

One of the things I thought most interesting from that show was a Last Will that was found from the host of the show's ancestor's owner. He freed half his slaves upon his death, and stated the other half could be freed upon his wife's death. So basically, he was recognizing that slavery was wrong and hurt the people he had purchased, but that it wasn't wrong enough to inconvenience his life by freeing them while he (and his wife) were still alive. I can't imagine what kinds of lies these people had to tell themselves to justify their behavior.

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