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To: justshutupandtakeit
Did Jackson really own slaves. I thought he did not.

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson had purchased an elderly slave named Albert, who was then given the run of the town. His niece [Margaret J. Preston] observed that one day while she and her Uncle Thomas were taking a walk through town, that Albert went up to Jackson and carried on a conversation with him. Answering her inquiries, he told her,

I am letting him work out and pay for himself as he makes the money." He further stated that he got plenty of work and good wages. My impression is that he didn't charge him interest, although I am not sure of this, and that the negro was getting along very well in his payments. ... "It was pleasant to walk about the town with him (Jackson) and see the veneration with which the negroes saluted him, and his unfailing courtesy towards them. To the old gray-headed negro who bowed before him he would lift his cap as courteously as to his commander-in-chief."
Thomas Jackson Arnold, Early Life and Letters of Gen. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, New York, NY: Fleming H. Revell Co. (1915), pp. 338-339

To you Jackson's a terrorist?

648 posted on 03/20/2006 3:06:09 PM PST by 4CJ (Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito, qua tua te fortuna sinet.)
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To: 4CJ

Yep. He was doing the work of the devil and supporting a regime devoted to nothing but evil.


659 posted on 03/20/2006 4:36:04 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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