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To: wardaddy
Our black man James ...

You owned a black man?.....................

9 posted on 11/01/2017 10:19:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I’m hoping that’s an auto-correct goof, but I can’t think what the right word could be.


11 posted on 11/01/2017 10:22:56 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Red Badger

“You owned a black man?.”

Shhhh, nobody’s told his black man about the Emancipation Proclamation yet.


28 posted on 11/01/2017 10:36:52 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Red Badger; wardaddy

“Our black man James ...”

You owned a black man?..............”

Back in the day that term wasn’t unusual in the south.
If your family hired the same black man to work for you during the planting and harvesting seasons he was referred to as “our black man”.

We had a black family who lived in a cabin on our property. He worked for us year round.
Living in the cabin was part of his pay as was one dressed beef each year.
He raised hogs that were his to sell or eat and had his own chicken coop and milk cow.

He was not owned in any sense and he would tell anyone he was free to do as he pleased.
We called him our hand or our man.
Several times I heard him refer to himself as our negro.
It’s just the way it was.
Some of the older folks, black and white, still use that term.


45 posted on 11/01/2017 12:10:15 PM PDT by oldvirginian (The older i get the less i care what people think of me, therefore the more i enjoy life.)
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