[Tax-chick]

Anyone know whether Lewis is the slave Jackson is depicted as speaking to about slavery and the future in Gods and Generals?

Yes, it is ... we just rented that last week. (Outstanding Lee, very good Jackson, everyone else's beards looked fake, and the women were too treacly, in my opinion!)

$150 would not have purchased any slave, let alone an adult man with skills, on the open market at that time, so it seems likely that was a hire agreement.

[lentulusgracchus]

$150 would not have purchased any slave, let alone an adult man with skills, on the open market at that time, so it seems likely that was a hire agreement.

LOL -- trust a sharp pencil to spot that one!