Someone tie my shoes for me :( but that website...mulatto nation.. please tell me that is a joke, a parady, satire, something :o

I'm really speechless....oh my goodness

Middleton Plantation is one of the ones in Charleston. Come on back to Charleston! We have the Southeasten Wildlife Expo next weekend, our first Food and Wine Festival next month, Spoleto in May-June and MOJA in October!

I had to put in a PSA on tourism! :D ;)

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CT - can I have the link to the webpage that this came from? I want my kids to see this.

Re: Black Slave Masters
 

I have always wondered about freed Blacks owning slaves, but this does put it in a new perspective for me as one of the reasons.

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I received it in an e-mail forward last year and this year.

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At this time, I can't find information on the internet, but I do recall reading about a small percentage of people who purchased slaves for the sole purpose of giving them freedom. I think it's easy to look back at the transactions (which is exactly what they were viewed as) and not know the reasoning.

However, for most, slaves had to become a commodity - less than human, less than worthy - else I doubt the majority of slaveowners would have been able to stomach the realization of what they were doing. And, it is this mentality that continues to be the cause of suffering today, though it may take different forms. People and pain have to be trivialized so as not to taint abounding bubble worlds.

I consider myself fortunate to have documents like the one you posted, CT4, to remind me and future generations of the reality of slavery and its implications - on so many levels - for the past, present and future human condition.

I know, wasn't that frightening? :confused:

Rare Slave Photos
 

this site:Society & Culture ( http://www.aapci.org/cgi-bin/search/dirs2.cgi?cid=58)

Select African Diaspora/Slavery


The first site has thousands of photos for various categories

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/

Educators Shed Light on Northern Slavery

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Most Americans do not know the story of slavery in the North, said Jill Lepore, a professor of history at Harvard University and author of "New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan."

"There's no reason to hide the fact that New York City was built by slaves," she said. "It's an important part of the city's past."

Harlem state Assemblyman Keith Wright, who sponsored the legislation creating the Amistad Commission, said although the majority of the commission's members have yet to be appointed and no meetings have been held, he is optimistic that more schoolchildren will be taught about slavery.

Teaching about the slave trade "is the right thing to do," Wright said. "Absent South Carolina, the biggest importer of slaves was New York City."

The New York Historical Society recently presented an exhibition on slavery in New York that featured documents, paintings, video and sculpture.

In lower Manhattan, a long-lost burial ground where thousands of slaves and free blacks were laid to rest during the 18th century was recently declared a national monument by President Bush.

Slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, but when the American Revolution began in 1776, the only city with more slaves than New York was Charleston, S.C.

Oyster Bay eighth-grader Fiona Brunner said she was amazed to find out there were slaves buried near Oyster Bay.

"You always think that happened so far away, only in the South, and a lot of it was right here in our town," she said.

Please forgive me for crashing, but I think it's the duty of everyone who is interested in history to get the entire story, not just the sanitized version fed to us in grade school.

CT4, that poster is amazing! "Likely" - to be what? The master's offspring? Never does one understand the concept of slavery as well prior to realizing that posters such as that are NOT for an auction of furniture or real estate, but for people! It seems incredible that this actually took place, not even 200 years ago!

I give a yearly introduction to history talk to third-graders in a suburb which is mostly white, and when I show them a copy of the Pennsylvania 1790 census for their town (which includes 4 slaves), the children are shocked. In fact, I show them the copy only because, when I just told them about it, NO ONE BELIEVED ME!

Too many people think that slavery was confined to artistically beautiful scenes of southern plantations - when it was so widespread, and so varying in socio-economic status!

Slavery in the North consisted more of families with one or 2 slaves to take care of them personally or to hire out. In the South, most slaves were worked on agricultural plantations.

The nature of slavery was different in the two regions because one economy was more industrial and the other more agricultural. However, each region depended on the other for the economic good of the entire country.

The similarities - buying and selling human beings, racism, legal status and rights of enslaved persons, etc - are more overarching than the differences.