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----- Original Message -----
From: "Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history"
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Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Mount Vernon Opens Rebuilt Slave Cabin
> Mr. Forest,
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> You have not considered that absence of ocean-worthy ships in your
> calculation. Paul Cuffee (sp?), one of the first black men, if not the
> first, to operate such a ship took a boatload of blacks voluntarily back
> to Africa during the second decade of the 18th century.
> By the way, "jungle" is not a geographic descriptor. I think you meant
> to write rainforest. Though the equatorial zone of Africa contains most
> of Africa's rainforest, some of the land there is more arid; some quite
> arid. Think" the different agricultural environments of Virginia or South
> Carolina.
> So, one African would come from a region so rainy that chiefly bananas
> would grow there but fifty miles away sprang another African, who knew
> chiefly millet, dry cultivated rice, etc.
>
> Harold S. Forsythe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Basil Forest" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Mount Vernon Opens Rebuilt Slave Cabin
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>> Material quality of life is what kept free blacks in the US rather than
>> going back to the jungle lifestyle they came from.
>>
>> Basil Forest
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