Friends:
This really crosses the bar from-used-to-be-scholarly exchange to
often-just-plain-annoying to now-just-plain-stupid. Is there another
list server that is not contaminated that one can join? Please,
obviously, respond off list I am off of this list. Don't waste your
time responding to me on this list, because I am off it. But, if
anyone can find Anne's "off" switch, please use it.
Craig
On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:
> J South,
>
> Robert E. Lee is not more a "worthy subject" for Virginia History
> than Sally Hemmings or any other slave. Without slave labor, you
> probably would not have a building to work in. Most historical
> public buildings in Virginia were built with the labor of the
> illegitimate children of slaves who were forbidden by law to marry.
> The father/s of Sally's children may well have wanted to make her a
> honest woman, but was constrained by the law or the whims of her
> owner, or both.
>
> But if you want to discuss another slaveowner, Robert E. Lee, go
> right ahead. How did he treat his slaves? Did he give them
> permission to marry? Did he purchase "breeders", or sell same? How
> did he provision his slaves? How much meat was his weekly alotment?
> And how did Mrs. Robert E. Lee treat those of their joint slaves
> which were purported to be hers?
>
> Anne
>
> Anne Pemberton
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