Trump: "Why was there a Civil War?"

[CaliCat 3,957]

4 minutes ago, ccneat said:

 Books..what a concept

 

Who needs books, when you can get the gospel truth straight from the mounht of the supreme leader?

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 minute ago, CaliCat said:

 

Who needs books, when you can get the gospel truth straight from the mounht of the supreme leader?

Who needs truth when you have tweets?

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Retropolis

Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson and ‘the master class’

 

 

 

 

By DeNeen L. Brown May 1 at 10:20 AM 

The runaway slave ad placed by Andrew Jackson ran in the “Tennessee Gazette,” on Oct. 3, 1804. The ad was published on Page 3, column 4. (Library of Congress/Tennessee Gazette)

This story has been updated to reflect President Trump’s speculation that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the Civil War.

“Stop the Runaway,” Andrew Jackson urged in an ad placed in the Tennessee Gazette in October 1804. The future president gave a detailed description: A “Mulatto Man Slave, about thirty years old, six feet and an inch high, stout made and active, talks sensible, stoops in his walk, and has a remarkable large foot, broad across the root of the toes — will pass for a free man …”

Jackson, who would become the country’s seventh commander in chief in 1829, promised anyone who captured this “Mulatto Man Slave” a reward of $50, plus “reasonable” expenses paid.
Jackson added a line that some historians find particularly cruel.
It offered “ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred.”
The ad was signed, “ANDREW JACKSON, Near Nashville, State of Tennessee.”

Jackson, whose face is on the $20 bill and who President Trump paid homage to in March, owned about 150 enslaved people at The Hermitage, his estate near Nashville, when he died in 1845, according to records. On Monday, President Trump created a furor when he suggested in an interview an interview with the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito that Jackson could have prevented the Civil War.

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Jackson’s slave ad is one of thousands being catalogued by the history department at Cornell University, which launched “The Freedom on the Move” project to digitize and preserve runaway slave ads and make them more accessible to the public.

“Our goal is to ultimately collect all the runaway ads that have survived,” said Edward E. Baptist, a Cornell history professor who is collaborating on the project with Joshua D. Rothman, at the University of Alabama, and Molly Mitchell, at the University of New Orleans.

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Baptist said the ads provide rich insights into history.

“They are these little windows,” Baptist said. “I call them the tweets of the master class. The purpose is to alert the surveillance system that was the entire body of white people in the South to help this individual recover this human property.”

An ad seeking Isaac, which ran in the New Orleans Daily Picayune on Jan. 15, 1851. (New Orleans Daily Picayune/Freedom on the Move)

The ads often describe in detail the runaways: their skills, missing teeth, height, weight. They give insight into how enslaved people lived and carried themselves. The ads also provide a sense of resistance and defiance, along with harsh punishments. They describe recent beatings, scars and fingers cut off. In an ad dated June 5, 1788, that ran in the Virginia Herald and Fredericksburg Advertiser, a woman named Patty, who was about 18 years old and five feet high, is described this way: “Her back appears to have been used to the whip.”

Some ads included languages spoken beyond English: Dutch, French or African languages. Others offered evidence that escaped slaves were literate and able to write passes.
Teaching slaves to read and write was prohibited, especially after Nat Turner’s revolt in Southampton County, Va., in 1831, Baptist said. “There was a wave of anti-literacy laws. Slave owners knew if some men and women were literate, they could write passes to freedom.”

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 minute ago, ccneat said:

Who needs truth when you have tweets?

 

You need to think of tweets as HaiKus filled with secret enlightenment

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4 minutes ago, ccneat said:

what if the entire Trump presidency is some sort of Drunk History binge-a-thon?

Delightful concept! I'd also highly recommend Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter for full overview of the Civil War. Abe really was so great in vanquishing the southern vampires with his axe.

 

[ready4ONE 5,400]

4 hours ago, IAMX said:

Trump has an opinion..

 

 

An opinion based on alternative facts so lunatic everyone else can only shake their heads and agree that this will be the longest four years in history.

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2 minutes ago, ready4ONE said:

An opinion based on alternative facts so lunatic everyone else can only shake their heads and agree that this will be the longest four years in history.

I am weary with the winning

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 minute ago, ccneat said:

I am weary with the winning

 

The supreme leader warned us that we would win so much, we'd get tired of winning. In his infinite wisdom he foresaw things yet to come. 

[IAMX 3,055]

1 hour ago, ready4ONE said:

An opinion based on alternative facts so lunatic everyone else can only shake their heads and agree that this will be the longest eight years in history.

FTFY

 

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2 hours ago, IAMX said:

FTFY

 

Witty! Glad you like your facts fricasseed, run through a blender with added furtilizer, and poured into a dirty glass.

[eieio 1,594]

Andrew Jackson. The founder of the Democrat party. Nothing has changed.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

3 hours ago, eieio said:

Andrew Jackson. The founder of the Democrat party. Nothing has changed.

So you disagree with the President?

[eieio 1,594]

1 hour ago, ccneat said:

So you disagree with the President?

Yes. 

 

 

[IAMX 3,055]

6 hours ago, eieio said:

Yes. 

 

 

Likely for far more logical reasons than dredging up slavery. 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, IAMX said:

Likely for far more logical reasons than dredging up slavery. 

Who's dredging? The president wanted to know why we had the Civil War and it is only fair that we answer.  I know he was depending upon Fredrick Douglass to explain it to him but there you are.