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    Post Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It

    Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It -- The Federal Writer's Project is fascinating as hell and an incredible resource...


    I walked past the statue of Thomas Jefferson standing among bricks bearing the names of people he’d enslaved, past a cabin that enslaved people had slept in, and past the stone auction block upon which enslaved people had been sold and separated from their families. Toward the end of a long corridor was a dimly lit room with sepia-toned photos on the walls. Photos of enslaved people holding their own children, or their enslaver’s children. Photos of fresh wounds on the backs of those who’d been beaten. Photos of people bent over fields of cotton that hid their faces.

    But what was most striking about the room was the voices running through it. The words of people who had survived slavery were running on a six-minute loop. Their voices floated through the air like ghosts.
    • “My father was not allowed to see my mother but two nights a week,” said a woman in the voice of Mary A. Bell. “Dat was Wednesday and Saturday. So he often came home all bloody from his beatings.”
    • “I had to wok evva day,” said a woman in the voice of Elvira Boles. “I’d leave mah baby cryin’ in the yard, and I’d be cryin’, but I couldn’t stay.”
    • “My mudder word in de field,” said Harrison Beckett. “Sometimes she come in 9 or 10 ’clock at night. She be all wore out an’ it be so dark she too tired to cook lots of times, but she hafter git some food so we could eat it. Us all ’round de table like dat was like a feast.”
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    To say the least african americans were not treated as even humans at times in america. Everyone acknowledges that and the holocaust.

    I was in an exchange about how I could put the holocaust on the same level as slavery...I responded 6 million people men women and children by genocide is quite an horrific event on its own...That does not diminish that slavery happened in the USA

    Personally Im a brazen $#@!, Ill say what I believe alot of people are just as scared on the internet as they are in real life to state how they really feel and what they really believe.

    I am neither a racist nor anti semetic....As an Italian American who has no bloodline that was in any way involved with either horrific event, therefore I refuse to accept any blame or insults or accusations whatsoever for either happening.

    No one is going to make me a Patsy for any whim they conjure up in their heads. No one is going to make me even feel responsible for genoicde or slavery nor is anyone going to intimidate me, bend me to their will or and here is the big one, they will not stifle me or take my RIGHT as an american to free speech
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    Democrats should be forced to read their stories so they can be reminded what they did to people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Democrats should be forced to read their stories so they can be reminded what they did to people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    MMC means it was democrats that were the KKK and most of the slave owners
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    Estimates are that no more than 10% of Americans owned Slaves and most in the Southern States. Everyone was not responsible even before slavery ended in America over 150 years ago.

    The tragedy is that it did not end as quickly as most of the Founders intended, but that does not make America a country founded upon Slavery by any reasonable interpretation.

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    The Atlantic is a joke. Their obsession with slavery has nothing to do with a love of freedom. Notice how they have to connect Thomas Jefferson to slavery in their opening salvo. That is intentional. The issue of slavery is being used as a propaganda tool, just as it was during the northern invasion of the southern States. Republicans are stupidly sh*tting on their own ancestors in some weird attempt to blame modern Democrats for southern slavery. No wonder you guys keep losing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Estimates are that no more than 10% of Americans owned Slaves and most in the Southern States. Everyone was not responsible even before slavery ended in America over 150 years ago.
    A whole lotta white guys died during our War for Independence
    The tragedy is that it did not end as quickly as most of the Founders intended, but that does not make America a country founded upon Slavery by any reasonable interpretation.
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    Ok.... but the story is a good story. Reading these quotes from the words of the slaves themselves is stunning to me - regardless of the percentage of slaveowners, or deviants, or leftists or whatever. It was brutally cruel and dehumanizing and I (for one) am glad that the stories are preserved.
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    By the way, you probably won't read any of the stories from slaves who said they liked being slaves. Because there are many of them.
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