GDG- New museum

[Margaret D. Blough]

Jim,

And to think we have Mel to than for showing us what a forgiving colony and future state South Carolina was, less than 40 years after the Stono rebellion.  And to think I thought I saw pictures of slave markets in Charleston when it was actually His Majesty's South Carolina Colonial Office of Employment Security.<g>

Regards,

Margaret

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From: James Cameron <cameron2 at optonline.net> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> << Even now you can go to museums and web sites where slavery is not 
> mentioned as a cause or is explicitly denied as a cause. Just a few 
> years ago I went to tour Antebellum mansions in Natchez MS and the 
> ONLY one of a dozen houses where slaves were called slaves (as 
> opposed to servants) was the house run by the National Park Service. 
> African Americans were and are made to feel irrelevant when it comes 
> to the Civil War (War between the States my butt). >> 
> 
> Or the Mel Gibson movie "The Patriot" of a few years back, where people who 
> would obviously have been slaves on a southern plantation were - with a 
> straight face - depicted as employees. 
> 
> Believe that, and I've got a nice bridge for sale.... 
> 
> Jim Cameron 
> 
> 
> 
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