Friends:

This really crosses the bar from-used-to-be-scholarly exchange to  
often-just-plain-annoying to now-just-plain-stupid.  Is there another  
list server that is not contaminated that one can join?  Please,  
obviously, respond off list  I am off of this list. Don't waste your  
time responding to me on this list, because I am off it.  But, if  
anyone can find Anne's "off" switch, please use it.

Craig

On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:

> J South,
>
> Robert E. Lee is not more a "worthy subject" for Virginia History  
> than Sally Hemmings or any other slave. Without slave labor, you  
> probably would not have a building to work in. Most historical  
> public buildings in Virginia were built with the labor of the  
> illegitimate children of slaves who were forbidden by law to marry.  
> The father/s of Sally's children may well have wanted to make her a  
> honest woman, but was constrained by the law or the whims of her  
> owner, or both.
>
> But if you want to discuss another slaveowner, Robert E. Lee, go  
> right ahead. How did he treat his slaves? Did he give them  
> permission to marry? Did he purchase "breeders", or sell same? How  
> did he provision his slaves? How much meat was his weekly alotment?  
> And how did Mrs. Robert E. Lee treat those of their joint slaves  
> which were purported to be hers?
>
> Anne
>
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