So I guess my looking at the circumstances of Thomas Cardwell's life  
and his family being Catholic recusants, a relative who was hung,  
drawn and quartered by the Crown because he was a priest, and why  
Thomas came to Virginia, the life of an indentured servant, is  
beating a dead horse? The Crown no longer executes Catholics, English  
can emigrate to America like anyone else, there are no more  
indentured servants, maybe I should just get over it. Maybe I'm just  
trying to keep those old wounds alive. Or does one assume that  
looking into one's slave ancestry must mean a demand for sympathy,  
apologies, reparations? The article I posted said that nowhere- it  
was an interesting look back into the history and descendants of a  
group of people, that's all. I see nothing at all objectionable in that.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Feb 12, 2007, at 5:31 AM, Clara Callahan wrote:

> Hopefully at least 90% of it is history.  I understand what the man  
> is saying and it has nothing to do with racism or white people who  
> think only they are or have a right to be interested in their own  
> history.  What comes to mind is that old saying about beating a  
> dead horse while miraculously keeping it alive by using it to  
> garner sympathy and special treatment hundreds of years after the  
> fact.  He may not have said it as politically correctly as some  
> would like, but his view has as much validity as any other view  
> here.  Furthermore, one thing he is NOT doing is rewriting history  
> as in painting savages who murder and mutilate as wholesome and  
> respectable, which brings to mind another old saying about making a  
> silk purse from a sow's ear.
>
> Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  It's history. If all  
> history is to be "gotten over", why are we even
> in this group? Why do any one of us read any record or account, or
> write any book or paper? Let's just burn it all, it's over, forget
> about it.
>
> Why are YOU in this group? Or are only white people allowed to have
> an interest in their history?
>
> Geez, lighten up...
>
> Nancy
>
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> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Basil Forest wrote:
>
>> Get over it. Slavery has been dead since the 13th amendment in 1865.
>>
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