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 ------- 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 > > ------- > 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. >> >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >> instructions >> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html