Posted on 02/26/2007 8:38:10 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Just hold her upside down and let the crap flow out of her ears.
LOL.
Weird?? Yes, weird!! lol!!
I spent my Oscar night playing Madden NFL. It would have made a better film than Gore's slideshow.
How Come we don't hear much about Black Slave Owners?
Black slave owners a historic anomaly
George Walker IV/Associated Press
Carl Bryant, talks about his ancestor, Sherrod Bryant, a free black man who owned at least 22 slaves prior to the Civil War.Story Tools
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Tennessee man looks into his ancestor's past, learns to deal with it
By Associated Press
February 26, 2007
NASHVILLE -- Like many wealthy landowners of the pre-Civil War South, Sherrod Bryant owned slaves. They probably worked much of Bryant's 700 acres in Middle Tennessee, an area larger than that of Andrew Jackson's Hermitage plantation.
The slaves under Bryant helped raise hogs for their owner, who had a large family and was always looking to buy more property. Unlike many slave owners, however, Sherrod Bryant was black.
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Today, the notion of a black man owning black slaves seems contradictory -- Bryant himself was a free black -- and perhaps even hypocritical. According to Bryant's descendants, however, their ancestor, who was never a slave, was simply following the normal pattern of life for a rich landowner in the Upper South.
"I think at some point, some of the members (of the family) might not have looked upon it very favorably, but the more we discuss it, the more we suddenly realize that to gain wealth during that time, if you had a lot of property, you had to have slaves to help you cultivate it," said Carl Bryant.
For the past six years, Carl, a retired Air Force veteran, has studied the life of Sherrod Bryant, who probably was among the wealthiest blacks in Tennessee in the 1800s. Upon his arrival to the state in 1806 from North Carolina, the then 25-year-old Sherrod Bryant set to purchasing land, acquiring seven different parcels in the still-fledgling Midstate between 1811 and 1852.
That land included 300 acres known as Bryant Grove on the Rutherford County side of Long Hunter State Park, as well as part of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in downtown Nashville.
Along the way, he picked up slaves to help him work the land, Carl Bryant said. Carl used a genealogy Web site along with an inventory list from county archives that listed 22 slaves under Sherrod's possession, including some who appeared to be children of older slaves.
"That was just a fact, that if you had a lot of property and you were a big farmer plus you had to feed your family, you had slaves, because where would you find help?" Carl Bryant said.
There have been several cases of free blacks owning slaves in the pre-Civil War South, according to Dr. George Smith, a Murfreesboro physician and Civil War re-enactor who said he began studying black slave-owners after hearing of Sherrod Bryant.
Smith said free blacks often purchased slaves to free them, but Carl Bryant said he has no evidence that Sherrod freed his.
"Most of our impressions of slavery has been influenced by TV and movies," Smith said. "But slavery was a peculiar institution, and Sherrod Bryant was part of that."
Why waste a perfectly good airplane on that bunch of stiffs?
Ignore them some more, and maybe they'll finally get slapped upside their head with reality and cancel the whole deal because of a lack of interest.
I was thinking an empty airplane of course!
I just caught a few seconds and then had better things to do like sleep!
Reagan signed tax hikes in 1982, 1984 and 1986.
More good news from Iraq
Shhhh... The Surge is Working
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790468/posts
Thanks! This makes any complaints of failing to sign no raising taxes pledges somewhat incredible.
I wish I had a screen capture of some of their faces. They looked like they wanted to reach out and touch his robes. Leo's and Melissa's faces were priceless, but it wasn't just them.
Wow. Interesting. Thanks!
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