Thanks, I will zip off there for a look, I am still trying to find  
out more about the William Cardwell, blacksmith,  who married "Betty  
Brown, colored" daughter of Kitty Brown, in the late 1700s in  
Culpeper Co., and what happened to them. Suspicious silence on the  
white side of the Cardwell family about it...

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Mar 4, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Douglas Deal wrote:

> Paul Heinegg wrote:
>> I just joined this discussion (and discussion group), so I may be  
>> missing the point. What did African American slaves' ability to  
>> overthrow their oppressors say about the institution of slavery?  
>> As Douglas Deal pointed out and as John Brown's raid and the Civil  
>> War proved, it was no easy task.
>>
>>
>
> Hi Paul and welcome to the list:
>
> There are usually a few threads going at any one time. The one you  
> have just commented on started with a question about the WPA slave  
> narratives and their implications for the interpretation of slavery  
> in the US (specifically, how do we explain the surprisingly  
> positive views of slavery in these narratives). That led to a  
> different enquiry: whether the relative absence of slave revolts in  
> the US was evidence of some degree of satisfaction with, or  
> adaptation to the institution of slavery. To view an archive of the  
> recent postings on these matters, check out the entries for  
> February and March 2007 at the url listed at the bottom of each  
> posting.
>
> If you peruse the latest postings as a group, you'll find there has  
> also been much discussion of race, ethnicity, and identity among  
> people of biracial and tri-racial ancestry, both in Virginia and in  
> the US generally.
>
> For those not familiar with Paul Heinegg's work, let me just say  
> that he has assembled an extremely valuable website  
> (www.freeafricanamericans.com) with  specific  documentary  
> references to  African American individuals and families (quite a  
> few with mixed ancestry) in the Southeast from colonial times into  
> the 19th century--all arranged by family name and date! I'm sure  
> many  of the subscribers to this listserv have known about and used  
> his site already.
>
> Doug Deal
>
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