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Votes of black people, brown people, older people, younger people, the people who tend not to vote for the same persuasion as those who pass those laws. So history is never over. Every time we think we have turned a great corner in race and race relations, which we did in the reelection of barack obama and president obama every time there is a revolution there is a counterrevolution and the resistive to president obama for better or worse in whatever side of that issue people might the on is a kind of counterrevolution. Its a push back against his conception of government, him personally his c...

They held a mock symbolic burial of a former slave woman named Hannah Reynolds who was killed here on the morning of april 9. No one ever knew where she was buried. They do her name and who her master was, her owner and the Africanamerican Community of appomattox county got together with the National Parks service and planned for months this amazing performance that was a living history burial, a funeral for Hannah Reynolds. The choirs were terrific. They same they sang spirituals. Without any accompaniment. I was surprised stunned, and please define hundreds and hundreds of black folks. I hav...

Harriet. But there are others. Many more xes than pictures. This is lucy delaney who signed an x which you as a child and live to write about it after the civil war. Swansee adams, one of the duncan slaves, which is one of my favorite stories because it is a story in which there is a superb victory for all of the duncan slaves over all of their duncan masters. But behind each of these stories is a family or an individual and, altogether, many of these freedom suits were family affairs. Whether the litigants sued jointly or in succession, a total of 160 persons of the 239 for whom we have recor...

They were bought souls sent and inherited, but they themselves did not buy, sell, contract and inherent. Slaves inhabit their masters agenda. They lived through their masters agendas and lives during a time of their enslavement. The subject and subjective quality of their lives is overtaken by their existence as such, slaves are often on notice. It is hard to find details about their lives. They are described in the passive voice as having the characteristics of object. There are many lawsuits that involved slaves. The law books are full of them. They took place over the heads of slaves betwee...

Sometimes, you dont have to have any more explanation for the friends around you then maybe the one you just gave. For one thing, the civil war lets face it it causes, the war itself and its consequences, its an epic. It is a tremendous epic, if by epic we mean, a great story. It has heroes and villains. It has causes. It has results. Tell your friends when they look at you like some weird eccentric. Tell them you have one of the few republics in the world, and 80some years in its history, it tears itself to pieces over the secondlargest system of slavery on the planet. It fights the first tot...