I would think that no matter how lovely the place and wonderful the  
people, the fact that it was not your choice to be there would be  
untenable. And the knowledge that there was a whole list of things  
you could not do, or else you'd suffer some pretty terrible  
consequences. That legally you were not really considered a human  
being. And that your wonderful master might fall off his horse and  
die, and you and your family could be split up and sold off. Not a  
thing in your life was in your hands, other than how well you toed  
the line and didn't make trouble for yourself. Not a life I'd want to  
live.

Nancy

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

--Daniel Boone



On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:41 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> In the book, The "Hemingses of Monticello:  An American Family",  
> the  author
> makes one point abundantly clear regarding slaves, a point that is   
> totally
> obvious when understood.  No matter what the personal or  family   
> relationship,
> one fact remains  totally dominate, a slave was  a slave weather it  
> was on a
> personal level, a family level or a societal   level. No other  
> relationship
> changed that overriding fact in the least.
> Charles Layne
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