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In reply to the discussion: This quote, true or false: "For the most part the slaves were not mistreated" [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)24. It is wonderful...a window into the place where our world came from.
Regarding the plantation feller, he passed away two years after receiving the letter from his former property:
And what happened to Colonel Patrick Henry Anderson? He died just 2 years after the letter was written, in September 1867, at the age of 43.
SOURCE: http://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/jourdon_anderson.html
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CreekDog
Aug 2014
OP
EXACTLY. The very word "SLAVES" answers definitivley this poll, just as "torture" suffices per se.
WinkyDink
Aug 2014
#140
They were given all the whippings and brutally hard physical labor that they could want.
Orrex
Aug 2014
#3
I'll bet one has to exercize massive amount of self control to deal with the
Dark n Stormy Knight
Aug 2014
#48
agreed- I had thought changes in hosting would result in RW, sexist,racist nut job OPs being locked?
bettyellen
Aug 2014
#31
I think one impacts the other, in that people see that RW crap is okay with hosts, so it must be ok
bettyellen
Aug 2014
#56
you see it in jury results, and in the hosts group too, a race to the bottom is what it is
bettyellen
Aug 2014
#66
Actually, I'd hoped the new GD SOP clarification would allow some latitude for hosts to lock
hlthe2b
Aug 2014
#62
As did I, and the SOPs would allow for many more locked threads if it was followed, as it was in LBN
bettyellen
Aug 2014
#64
It likely would be... except for the fact it talks about fair wages for labor
Scootaloo
Aug 2014
#28
Many farmers treated their work horses well too--bottom line a man or a woman is not a horse.
bklyncowgirl
Aug 2014
#30
yes, and what would be wrong with someone answering yes getting swarmed and bounced?
CreekDog
Aug 2014
#43
It's more interesting to discuss quotes in which there are two valid viewpoints
Algernon Moncrieff
Aug 2014
#50
are you saying it's a trick question because a bigot might answer honestly and reveal their feelings
CreekDog
Aug 2014
#44
Nobody with more than half a brain would answer that question "yes" in this venue.
Algernon Moncrieff
Aug 2014
#52
Looking at a poster's patterns is a criticism often leveled at the OP, as evidenced in this thread.
Gormy Cuss
Aug 2014
#115
Oh, heaven's no! You're my good buddy, you're the cowbell in my otherwise sedate DU world.
NYC_SKP
Aug 2014
#121
Since I'm already on the list, I see little reason to participate in any more polls. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Aug 2014
#70
i think pointing out that DUers are united in opposing this RW quote (posted here by another...)
CreekDog
Aug 2014
#55
My opinion only: What you describe would not truly be considered slavery
Algernon Moncrieff
Aug 2014
#61
Mistreated is not the language I would use, brutalized, terrorized and on and on. Owning another
Jefferson23
Aug 2014
#63
yeah and i'd like to stop hearing your whining about being a victim of your own words
CreekDog
Aug 2014
#82
If you think American slavery is limited to the use of African slaves during the 17-19th century....
NYC_SKP
Aug 2014
#130
Duh. Your link comes from my reply. Legality has nothing to do with it. It exists, FFS.
NYC_SKP
Aug 2014
#135
I went to high school in the south and there was a lot of revisionist history around slavery.
alarimer
Aug 2014
#91
Someone started a thread after seeing "12 Years a Slave" saying it wasn't always so bad....
bettyellen
Aug 2014
#105
my thoughts exactly. apparently the SOP covers the rants of dumbshit racists these days....
bettyellen
Aug 2014
#108
doesn't matter if they were mistreated in the classical sense (beating). being owned as property is
dionysus
Aug 2014
#110
I know what this is in response to, and I have to say the jury system is broken,
joeybee12
Aug 2014
#111
You really should have put a link to whatever OP or reply prompted this whole discussion.
NYC_SKP
Aug 2014
#122
Skippy, stop being lazy. If you know a better way to post something, DO IT YOURSELF
CreekDog
Aug 2014
#123
I get it, I know, this is a "Unity Poll" to prove to Freepers that we are united in our whatever.
NYC_SKP
Aug 2014
#124
Even if you treat someone like royalty, denying them freedom equals mistreatment.
Hosnon
Aug 2014
#129
Anyone who thinks slaves weren't mistreated needs to read some narratives
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2014
#147