[High Cotton]

It's about time public schools started teaching the WHOLE truth about slavery....well, it's a start anyway.

Walkin' in "high cotton"

[TexKat]

[TexKat]

AARRIS ARCHITECTS Photo / RODNEY LEON... This artist's rendering of the African Burial Ground memorial was released by Rodney Leon, its designer, in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005. The granite memorial will be erected on the 18th century burial site which was the final resting place to as many as 20,000 slaves and free blacks who helped build New York's economy. (AP Photo/AARRIS Architects, Rodney Leon, HO)

[BluH2o]

Related but different subject ... the Cincinnati Underground Museum, dedicated to the history of slaves who made their way north in the pre-Civil War period opened eighteen months ago. Millions in funding were raised by tapping mostly local business and private individuals. The Museum located in downtown Cincinnati, on the banks of the banks of the Ohio River, opened to much fan fare. At the time it was estimated public interest would generate sufficient funding to make it viable, cost wise, for years to come. To date it has been running in the red ... and earlier this week, for the first time, public funding is being sought to keep the doors open. My guess, when it first opened, initial interest would keep it profitable probably two years, perhaps three, before tax payers would be expected to bail it out. Well, as it turns out it never turned a dime in profit, in fact didn't even break even ... why are things like this so predictable?

[Tokra]

I though re-writing history was a tool of the left. Check out the census from 1850 & 1860. Then try to tell me that slavery was rampant in the North.

[lunarbicep]

BTTT

[wardaddy]

BTTT nice username:

[R. Scott]

It's about time public schools started teaching the WHOLE truth about slavery....well, it's a start anyway.

It seems they still don’t teach that slavery was the common state of most people throughout history.

[RavenATB]

One of the most interesting things I've discovered about slavery, is that the US Census Bureau started counting and tracking categories of slave-owning families, by race, a few years before the Emancipation Proclamation.

Has anyone here ever looked at that data? It's interesting stuff.