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Old 03-28-2008, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Army Wife'79 View Post
There were only 3 white people on this huge (school bus sized) tour bus. Me, and a couple from Holland. The surprised faces were on the blacks on the bus. This is all part of the "Black History Tour" that has Federal funding now in Charleston, b/c most of the slaves did enter from the Port of Charleston. I thought the Gullah tour was very interesting.

When we were stationed in Kansas, some of the buildings on Post were built with Indian slave labor.
And if one wishes to continue with the history class here:
The term "Cow-Boy" may have as one of its bases as a way to differentiate house-boys and cow-boys.
Over 1/3 of the Cow-Boys in the West were Black.
Something else not covered in most Western or History books.

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