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From: "Finkelman, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
> Mr. Trent:

> I don't think you will find too many slaves buried with their white 
> owners. The occasional family
> slave may have received that recognition, but most slaves were treated as 
> property.

Exactly. One can't get around the point that slaves were property. But there 
was a difference between a favorite slave buried tenderly in a slave 
cemetery with a marker, and a rebellious slave buried without a coffin or 
any regrets.  There was a ceiling -- enslaved people were inevitably 
property and not equal to whites -- but beneath that ceiling there was a 
wide range of treatments.

Hank Trent
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