Actually, J South, having read so many of your posts, I am thinking that it 
would be useful to make useful once again the slave auction block that still 
stands on a street corner in Fredericksburg, and auction you off into 
slavery, with the stricture that you be beaten regularly into submission, 
worked at hard labor from sunup to sundown seven days a week, and  be 
hounded if you attempt to escape. After a period of years, we could let you 
return and tell us what you would do to your "master" after less than a 
lifetime of such treatment. Somehow, I suspect, that murder would be at the 
top of your list!!!

While many slaves accepted their situation without rebellion, it is 
important for today's children to know that some rose up and made the effort 
to achieve freedom for their people, as well as the fact that some ran away 
to freedom and worked within the system to achieve the freedom for all. 
These are important heroes for our children to learn about. Certainly 
putting these people in a positive light will be as difficult as putting 
Jefferson Davis and Harry Flood Byrd in a positive light, but it is 
incumbent upon us, as those holding up the torch of history, to shine the 
light into all the corners that glisten with the ideals of freedom.

Anne



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