jmcquown wrote:
> On 6/22/2020 2:23 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:58:12 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>> " wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 12:45:22 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> At the end of his life,
>>>>> Washington made the decision to free all his slaves in his
>>>>> 1799 will -
>>>>> the only slave-holding Founding Father to do so.
>>>>>
>>>> Actually Washington said his slaves would be freed upon
>>>> Martha's death.
>>>> She was terrified they would kill or poison her to hasten their
>>>> freedom
>>>> so she freed them soon after George's death.
>>>
>>> In other words... G Washington might have talked about freeing
>>> the slaves but he never did until he was on his death bed.
>>>
>>> Kind of a "do as I say, not what I do" thing.
>>
>> Nothing new about slavery, there have been slaves since prehistoric
>> times.
>>
> The pyramids in Egypt were built using slave labor.
>
> People tend to forget African tribes captured and sold rival tribe
> members into slavery to the white man for a profit.* Everyone was
> guilty of promoting a horrific institution back in the day. That's
> the way things were.* We can't change history by teaching
> revisionist versions of it.
>
> Aunt Jemima was a character on a box of pancake mix and a bottle of
> syrup.* Uncle Ben was an actual rice farmer who used his own image
> to promote his product.* Marketing!
>
> BTW, I strongly object (just kidding) to the old white man on the
> box of Quaker Oats.* My ancestors weren't Quakers but they might
> have worn those funny hats.* I do know they were abolitionists.
>
> Jill

Makes me want to go out and start a riot right now!