[Locomotive Breath]

May I recommend Jefferson's War which I'm currently working my way through on audio book. I knew it was going on, but I had no idea the extent to which European and later American whites were enslaved by the North African Barbary states. There is a reason the phrase "galley slave" came into being and it wasn't a reference to the kitchen. There's also a reason "to the shores of Tripoli" is in the Marine Corp. hymn.

The black Africans' enslavement in the New World was far from a unique experience in the world of that era.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Thank you, I shall check out our library tonight. Lots of statements regarding Jefferson and the Koran lately have piqued my interest. I know my kin weren't particularly found of him from all I can read. Seems Guv Morris thought Jefferson was a hypocrite, but what can I tell you, I wasn't there.

[Crawdad]

I'm reading 'Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South' for the second time. The first was in 1981. It was a required text in my Southern History course at The University of Alabama. Roll Tide.