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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1341
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 09:06 pm: | 
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
The author only started learning about the strange fruit on his family tree in 2001, reading entries from an overseer’s journal on one of the DeWolf family sugar plantations in Cuba:
“April 9, 1821: Negroes look wild.
April 14, 1821: The first Negro I struck was this evening for laughing at prayers.
May 20, 1821: Two Negroes deserted.
September 28, 1821: Found two [slaves] this morning suspended by a rope in the woods not too far from the house. They were the two best on the plantation. I have not yet learned the cause of the unfortunate circumstance… Suffice it to say they are no more. They had been hanging undoubtedly three days previous to the discovery.
January 20, 1823: The two that deserted yesterday came back this day… Four days in the stockade heavily ironed… Twenty-four lashes on the naked bottom each, after which lanced and rubbed down with rum and salt.”
How f'ed up is that. Those Brothers that ran off must have known what awaited them when they returned, but they were probably so desparate, and hungry -- trapped on that island... just terrible. They lasted 8 months... what must it have been like for them to come back a live out their remaining days in captivity.
Those are the stories I want to read not the ones about the guilt ridden guys you still are benefiting -- and benefiting even more through the publication of this book -- sickening
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