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Steven,
I appreciate your solicitation to assauge my supposed "white guilt" by
inviting me to honor those slave who self-emancipated via Fort Monroe.
Unfortunately, no matter how brave those self-emancipators were, I am still
concerned about the failure to honor those slaves who bore children who were
half-white or more, and should have, by a reasonable standards have been
freed, even if not claimed by their fathers. I am not willing to kick Sally
Hemings under the rug of "oh, well, we can't prove a thing!" and run to
champion some others.
I have a great deal of respect for the women in bondage, and the especially
demeaning circumstances they were placed in. I am so much of a fan of
Harriet Tubman, that there are three stories about her on my (omigosh, date
I say it) website! I especially enjoyed reading about Ona Judge in An
Imperfect God and learning that "cannot tell a lie" George Washington
deliberately lied to try to retrieve "his property" when she
self-emancipated. I also celebrate such people as Frederick Douglass and the
many others who made it to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
I am currently reading a recommended book called "Slavery Counterpoint",
which makes a general statement that more slaves escaped (or attempted) from
the lowcountry in the Carolinas than from Virginia even tho Virginia was
closer to freedom.
Steven, I would like to be part of an effort to show the depth of the human
desire for freedom exhibited in those held in bondage, but I am not in a
position to provide any funding. If there is something else I can do, let me
know.
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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http://www.erols.com/apembert
http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
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