Posted on 05/29/2010 7:44:27 AM PDT by jay1949
Andrew Jackson would not be "politically correct" in today's world. A Backcountry warrior, made famous by the Battle of New Orleans, and a rough-hewn politician who became America's first Scotch-Irish President, Jackson was also a farmer and a slave-holder. His estate, The Hermitage, in Davidson County, Tennessee, has been preserved -- including some of the log cabins where Jackson's slaves lived. [Vintage photographs]
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interesting , thank you
I visited the Hermitage in 1995 and remember the slave cabin, but it looked like a modern reconstruction, not an original building from the time that Andrew Jackson lived there.
When I was a kid, my father took me to see the log cabin where my ancestors lived. It wasn’t nearly as nice as these slave cabins. It was one room, about half the size of the shown cabins, with a front and back porch built on. There was no fireplace.
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Interesting article. The conclusions are certainly plausible. There was considerable inter-racial cross-breeding and sometimes marriage in the early colonies, so much so that Virginia found it necessary to define “mulatto” for at least some purposes. Mixed-race individuals defined as “mulatto” by a 1705 Virginia statute were “the child of an Indian, or the child, grandchild, or great grandchild of a Negro.” Ch. IV, 3 Laws of Va. 252 (Henning 1823)— meaning that a 1-16th African (otherwise European) could be considered “white.” The Melungeons of southern Appalachia have been shown to be primarily a mix of northern European and sub-Saharan African ancestors.
The photographs are so Un-PC that they warm one’s heart.
Yes, but nobody owned your ancestors either. A nice slave cabin is still home to a SLAVE. Someone who is not free.
Slavery has always existed, still does in parts of the world. There were plenty of nonblack slaves, too. The bible speaks of slaves and the proper treatment of them. A lot of the slaves who were freed durring the Civil War either stayed with or returned to their masters. As usual the Yankees didn’t think ahead. They just went in and freed them without any plans of where they would go or how they would survive. Many slaveowners gave their freed slaves a piece of ground and paid them to continue to work for them. And most people don’t know that it was the African leaders who captured their own people and sold them into slavery. They may have had a better life as slaves in America than captured prisoners in Africa.
Check out some of the earlier cabins in Texas and in CA. They were a lot worse than these cabins. In Coloma, CA, tourists can view tiny huts where the gold miners lived, more than one to a hut, that are far worse than these slave cabins.
There is no race on the planet that has not been enslaved at one time or another. Slavery is indeed still practiced, primarily in Africa by Muslims, although Obamalamadingdong is doing his best to bring it back to America.......
Holy cow! They must have had plenty of blankets, and where did they cook?
Aside from the actual logs (eastern red cedar) I seriously doubt that the rest of the building is authentic to 1840. For incidence, I doubt that a slave cabin in Tennessee would have had a wood floor. Most of the cabins I've seen around here that still exist have dirt floors.
Maybe a cookstove?
Franklin stove
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