Were the Black(pre civil war) Sex Slaves Too?

[Dial_tone]

But what about the white wife? I mean did they just turn their back? And what about the slave owner falling for the black slave. did that happen much?

You should read up on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings.

 

[FreeballinDC]

did you say "read"? WTF are you thinking?

How foolish of me to think that anybody on this board would actually pick up a book and read it from cover to cover.

And I'm not talking just about the cover flaps either.

 

[the nature boy]

How foolish of me to think that anybody on this board would actually pick up a book and read it from cover to cover.

And I'm not talking just about the cover flaps either.

I were just saying that because you asked curling if he read.

 

[FreeballinDC]

I were just saying that because you asked curling if he read.

I have my own thoughts about what curling can actually do. I think he would have a good grasp of the fundamental reading skills, and "Roots" is not a difficult read.

Long read, yes. Difficult, no.

But I have been wrong before.

 

[ChefWide]

I have my own thoughts about what curling can actually do. I think he would have a good grasp of the fundamental reading skills, and "Roots" is not a difficult read.

Long read, yes. Difficult, no.

But I have been wrong before.

DC, you must admit that only in extreme cases is the ability to write cohesively and intelligibly a bad barometer for judging an individuals reading level (no, I am not talking about spelling). Extrapolate at will...

 

[FreeballinDC]

OK, here is my consipracy theory about crueling.

I think he's a front. Somebody in Texas is pulling our collective leg.

 

[ChefWide]

Oh the horror. It all starts to smell like Texas Poopchiladas. No wonder he didn't get the boot after his last Racism Hoedown.

A PM with your theory would fuel my theory beyond a 'Shaddow' of a doubt. LOL.

 

[FreeballinDC]

Chef, PM inbound in your general direction

 

[The Ranger]

Sex with slave owners and hired hands were quite common, though mostly rape....T. Jefferson owned alot of slaves at one time, and yet George Washington owned very few and released them as free men and women, he also encouraged T. Jefferson to do so as well in his later years...though Jefferson politely declined at the time....


Ranger

 

[FreeballinDC]

I took a tour of Mt Vernon, and went through some of the displays that were set up about how the household of Washington was run. One of the displays listed all the slaves that Washington owned.

One slave was named Camero. How cool was that?

I can just hear it now "Camero, go get Countach and Ferrari. We need plow up that garden of whacky weed that Corvette planted last year. That shit didn't bud right."