Craig, Senate Bill 18 of the Provisional Confederate Congress provides even greater fodder. It deals with a ban on the international slave trade and says that any attempted slaves imported into the CSA would be set free in a "Free State" provided they enjoyed the privileges of the white inhabitants. It was vetoed by Davis on Constitutional grounds in that it made the CSA a *de facto* importer of enslaved persons. The phraseology matches your political commentary requirement to a tee. We read a chapter of Brown for a class in Women's History and it supported the main argument of the course about the evolution of women's position in American society. I used it in comprehensives because it supported a portion of my argument. I suppose that is why we read chapters and not the entire book in some classes. The Native American portion is helpful to my studies because she reads source against the grain (John Smith and Native women's role in the production of corn) (no pun intended) that energizes me for scholarship. Native foodways. I feel like a secret Cultural Historian but the difference in the possession and distribution of food between the three ethnicities fascinate me. If Senegalese-Gambian and Angolan ethnic groups survived the Middle Passage, and there is ample evidence in the commonality of tools, linguistics, foods & their preparation techniques from both sides of the Atlantic, would seem to indicate that they subverted the loss of ethnic identity inherant within chattel slavery as practiced in the American South. If there is persistence under chattel slavery, is there then not the possibility of persistence of Native communities across the southeast? Applying Helen Rountree's argument about Native circular community formation to the broader region. However, having skimmed additional chapters, I would not recommend it to a non-specialist but nearly a hundred pages of notes make it a gold mine of sources. Omohundro Institute seal does not hurt either but I would expect it was written for the specialist. Interesting to note that it won the 1997 Dunning Prize from the AHA. Not sure how to take that award for a book about gender and race. Eric On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Craig Kilby <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Eric, > > Thanks for walking through this door. This is exactly what I was hoping to > learn more about. My initial impression is that the reason people wrote > this specific language into their wills was more of a political commentary > on the hypocrisy of the "free" Northern states....i.e, there was not state > would accept them. But I don't really know that, but this sure furthers the > theory. > > As so your last post citing Kathleen Browns book, "Nasty Wenches" etc. The > title is catchy but it is otherwise a waste of pulp. Just my opinion of > course, but I know it was reviewed by several people on our Mary Ball > Washington Museum & Library committee as a possible purchase. That is a > pretty diverse group of people and they were unanimous in their opinion: NO. > > On May 17, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > Craig, > > A Public History source/venue (Underground Railroad museum in Cincinnati) > > displayed several of the antebellum mid-western Black Codes that required > > removal of any person of African descent within a very short time period, > > as short as 24 hours like Georgia required for free persons of color > > entering that state. The museum's argument was that the Underground > > Railroad did not end in Ohio & elsewhere but continued to Canada as the > > actual safe refuge, not the "free States." Not sure if it is ancedotal > > proof or disproof but Sally Hemmings' son, Peter, changed his name to > > Jefferson in Ohio, moved to Wisconsin, and "passed" as white there. Not > > sure if the stop in Ohio was longer than the Black Code allowed but he > left > > VA after Jefferson emancipated him. > > Eric > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > -- Eric J. Richardson Master's of Arts in History Master's of Arts Candidate in English North Carolina Central University Durham, NC 27707 [log in to unmask] (336) 202-7341 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html