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Fw: White slaves
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jporeilly1 <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:42:56 -0400
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From: "jporeilly1" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: White slaves


> I don't know! Maybe it's all a big lie. Did you ever think of
> that? Do you really think a man of T.J's position would risk it
> all to play with a (dime a dozen) slave girl? Get real. Think about
> yourselves. Is
> that stuff so sweet and so dear, that you would risk everything
> you ever worked for, for your entire life? I know not what course you
> boys may take, but as for me, .... Is that stuff really worth the risk
> of losing everything? Wake up boys! You wouldn't do it and you know
> T.J. wouldn't either! Now, then again, maybe his hot nephew might not be
so
> reluctant, huh?
>
> A Virginian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Dixon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:18 PM
> Subject: White slaves
>
>
> > The assumption that Sally Hemings was the child of a black women and a
> > white man seems accepted. Her children are also assumed to have been the
> > children of a white man. Under the Virginia law at that time, they were
> > white.Why then did Jefferson seek permission (also a requirement of
> > statute) for Madison and Eston Hemings, freed under the terms of his
will,
> > to remain in Virginia. It was also provided by statute that the child of
a
> > slave women was born a slave, If the child were white and freed when an
> > adult, why did he not become a "white man" and automatically divested of
> > those requirements that control black freed slaves, i.e., leave the
> > Commonwealth unless granted permission to stay by the General Assembly?
> >
> >
> > Richard E. Dixon
> > Clifton, VA 20124-2115
> > 703-830-8177
> > fax 703-691-0978
> >
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