Posted on 01/01/2016 5:55:35 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Happy New Year.
I promise there will be some actual 160-year-old information to present later on, but for now let us continue catching up on . . .
Continued from 1855 reply #371
"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)
Well would you support the idea that taint all one and taint all the other.....................
I am not sure I have a take away. Certainly the story illustrates how slave were viewed as non persons. Certainly it underlines what we all should know that slavery was not just a think of the US. Really probably 90% or even 99% of us are descendants of slaves if you go back far enough.
It also illustrates how resourceful people can be to survive on such a tiny strip of treeless land for so long. Imagine keeping a fire going for 15 year with so little fuel for the fire. Imagine child birth in such circumstances. Imagine being brave enough to attempt to sail off that island. It is to me breath-taking how easy our lives are compared to people in the past.
True. And if not slave ancestors, then perhaps indentured servant ancestors. I suspect that some of my Irish, Scotch-Irish, and Dutch ancestors might have come to America as indentured servants. Being an indentures servant wasn't as bad as being a slave. Well, it apparently was bad enough in some cases for the servants to run away. See, for example, the following advertisements offering rewards for the recovery of runaway servants. I found these advertisements in 1787 Philadelphia newspapers: Link
The papers said that one of the escaped servants, a Dutchman, had been purchased from on ship board. So, they apparently could be sold like slaves.
"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)
Chapter 15 to be continued.
"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)
Of course it wasn't all one way or the other. This paragragh from Fremantle that I quoted before on this thread strikes me as probably accurate.
My fellow-travellers of all classes are much given to talk to me about their "peculiar institution," and they are most anxious that I should see as much of it as possible, in order that I may be convinced that it is not so bad as has been represented, and that they are not all "Legrees," although they do not attempt to deny that there are many instances of cruelty. But they say a man who is known to illtreat his negroes is hated by all the rest of the community. They declare that Yankees make the worst masters when they settle in the South; and all seem to be perfectly aware that slavery, which they did not invent, but which they inherited from us (English), is and always will be the great bar to the sympathy of the civilised world. I have heard these words used over and over again.ML/NJ
"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)
Filed under: “Read if you ever start to feel sorry for yourself and your condition.”
My alarm clock didn't go off on time, then the dog threw up on the living room carpet, then I had a flat on the way to work. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.
I be so glad... when the sun goes down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE&list=PL3I6jMZ3mAkM3ipqnUWQidtePs07wgDV8
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Yep.
5.56mm
Good morning!
Agreed.
Betcha if anyone would have asked Covey would have told them he treats his slaves well.
"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)
I’ve been grieved by that excerpt all day, ever since I read it this morning.
Chapter 17 to be continued.
"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)
All too often in these discussions about those times, the word “tyranny” is much bandied about. Now we hear the word from the perspective of Freddie Douglas, “Humanity fell before the systematic tyranny of slavery”.
Today in our country, humanity falls before the systemic tyranny of abortion.
The lock-step parallels are not lost on me. Can you say “peculiar institution”?
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