Who is free in the business of slavery?

What a profound introduction into a truthful dialogue, Melissa CatsCradle Hart  "I read this both in high school and in college. I think a lot of what is taught in schools is dependent on the locale. I went to school in Alabama."

Your words. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories







In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the execution, by hanging, of 38 Dakota Sioux prisoners in Mankato, Minnesota. Most of those executed were holy men or political leaders of their camps. None of them were responsible for committing the crimes they were accused of. Coined as the Largest Mass Execution in U.S. History. (Brown, Dee. BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1970. pp. 59-61)

"Lincoln before 1863? Hmmm .... Lincoln after 1858.  The amazing ability that we all have as human beings is the power to right the wrongs we have done to other people in word and deed, when the opportunity is present. I believe history presents to us that Lincoln seized such an opportunity in 1863. If any of us died would we really want people to remember us for all the wrong and bad stuff we did in our life times.. That question is for those who actually care about life." - Antoine Charles  11.16.12

 You know, when I think someone is a true intellectual,and I don't often find that in public office; I believe that they never stop growing, changing and evolving with experience. While most people are up in arms of Mitt Romney's most recent comments, I just don't think that he has the intellect to deal with the realities that were given to him. This statement was made in 1858. Margaret Gardner had not made her stand. So much had not happened before Lincoln at this point. I will not hold someone to their worst positions if they demonstrate the ability to grow.

How could he not have been moved beyond this stupid position after encountering the likes of Fredrick Douglass,and his second wife? How could he have not been moved by the valor, bravery and cunning intelligence of his coloured soldiers? He was surrounded by conflicts to his ignorance. Elizabeth Keckley.  She was brilliant and right in the White House, right in the middle of their family...

I am not saying I know he changed. I just feel that it was possible.The tone and tenor was different towards the end of the war." - Courtney Tolbert 11.15.12