Hello all--
It occurs to me that as I am writing a grad school paper on JF Cooper's
"The Last of the Mohicans" and Thomas Cole's paintings based on it that
there might be some implications here that relate to the whole concept
of "the extinction of the American Indians." Any thoughts?
On Mar 29, 2005, at 8:16 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 3/29/2005 2:11:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>> The purpose was to serve his own private racist agenda, but after
>> those
>> records and indexes were transferred to the Library of Virginia, they
>> served
>> (and still serve) genealogists.
>
> Plecker's "private racist agenda"......was also the agenda of others
> in power
> in VA and other states. He articulated and helped to codify what was
> happening by "custom", in Virginia and its influence spread throughout
> country and the
> world. I was in South Africa in Dec. and visited the Apartheid
> Museum, their
> Racial Integrity Law was posted on wall, I thought I was reading the
> VA Law.
> Its intent and purpose was the same.
>
> His attack on Virginia's Indian descendants is also a culmination of a
> much
> longer history and should not be seen as something that just came
> about when he
> assumed office.
>
> As for impact on genealogists, the birth and death records for 1853
> through
> 1896 are a wonderful resource for VA researchers, and the envy of
> those who
> research other states that didn't begin recording that early. They
> also can and
> do cause much consternation (to put it mildly) for those who assume
> they
> understand just what "Race" means in America.
>
> Another interesting article is Gregory Michael Dorr's Assuring
> America's
> Place in the Sun: Ivey Foreman Lewis and the Teaching of Eugenics at
> the
> University of VA, 1915-1953. The Journal of Southern History Volume
> LXVI, No. 2, May
> 2000.
>
> Selma Stewart
>
>
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