Posted on 10/13/2014 5:56:54 AM PDT by armydawg505
An “extremely rare” Civil War-era photograph of the enslaved woman who helped save Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Virginia home has been obtained by the National Park Service after a volunteer spotted the image on eBay.
The previously unknown photograph depicts Selina Gray, the head housekeeper to Lee and his family, along with two girls thought to be her daughters. The photograph was unveiled Thursday at the Arlington House plantation overlooking the nation's capital that was home to Lee and dozens of slaves before the Civil War.
An inscription on the back of the image reads "Gen Lees Slaves Arlington Va."
Park officials said this is only the second known photograph taken of slaves at Arlington.
"It's extremely rare to have an identified photo of an enslaved person," said National Park Service spokeswoman Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles. "Since slaves were considered property, it's very rare to have a photo where you can identify the people in the photo."
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So property rights took a big step backward since the Plymouth colony somewhere along the way.
Inherited from who? Grant's father-in-law didn't die until 1873.
No, and as you’d have discovered had you actually read any of my replies to this thread, you’d have discovered that I would hope for a more honest and less politicized treatment of the history. You prefer the standard narrative and are refusing to accept anything else. That impulse is not at all the behavior of an open and honest intellect, but it’s also not at all surprising.
Apparently there is a misconception they were all still wearing loincloths from Africa or something
or maybe they were tourists after the war for a photo?
The history is just as available to you as it is to anyone else. Play your games with someone more interested in playing, OK?
There are strange misconceptions across the board. The topic is a political lightning rod.
Which means it's available to you as well.
... which means you’re playing games and my interest level in so doing is what?
But many people would pick the slave option because it offered some certainty and security, at least at a very low level.
A lot of people knowingly vote for that every time they pull the Democrat lever: slavery not only for them, but for their fellow Americans as well. That plus further elevation of their ruling class masters to make a fair distribution of what the collective earns.
Plantations were merely mini-models of a liberal utopia-- just do as you're told and progressive massa will take care of you.
Women’s fashions are really something. Such as in this photo, how these ladies could stand wearing those enormous skirts and the framework under them is beyond me. Just going through a doorway must have been trouble.
Heck no... it was GREAT to be a slave!! really?
What would it take for you to choose the slave option? Speaking only for myself I cannot imagine any circumstances where I would willingly allow myself to be owned by another person.
It appears that you’ve directed your reply to the wrong person, as I’ve not claimed that, not at all. So, you’ll have to enforce the orthodox narrative upon someone else.
Personally I don't understand the purpose behind playing the game that Lee wasn't a slave owner. He was, for most of his life. So what? Was it illegal? No. Was he a particularly cruel master? Not from what I've read. Was he opposed to slavery? Mildly opposed at best, but more like a reluctant supporter. Does it make him a bad person? If so, then it many of our Founding Fathers and most of our early presidents bad people too, and I don't accept that. Yet Lee apologists constantly understate his connection with the institution and overstate Grant's as if that's supposed to mean anything.
My suggestion to you and your buddies is to stop judging Lee by today's standards and judge him instead by the standards of the period and by his peers. He actually comes off looking pretty good in most respects.
I have no debate with any point you’ve made regarding Robert E. Lee.
You'll never make a good Democrat voter with that kind of attitude. See you in the Gulag.
From what I’ve read, the manumission process was involved and time-consuming, which was the reason for the delay between when Lee inherited the slaves and when the last of them was actually freed.
Hoop skirts made a very nice place for male fugitives to hide. There are stories of more than a few doing so. And morals of the day prohibited looking underneath them.
Pet lapdogs sometimes hid under there and walked along with their mistress. Maybe that’s where mama’nem came from, lol. There literally was a crew whenever mama turned up.
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