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 > > Anne Pemberton > [log in to unmask] > http://www.erols.com/apembert > http://www.educationalsynthesis.org > ______________________________________ > 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