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Originally Posted by Army Wife'79
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.
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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.