Posted by REV. ANDRE G. DENIS D.D.
February 17, 2013 -
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America's 'Slave Narratives' should shock us !...
We are in the midst of Black History Month, The slave years in the United States were not only black history, they were American history -- the ugliest and most indefensible chapter. ( the Slave Narratives ) a 17 bound volumes in the Library of Congress, filled with the firsthand accounts of more than 2,000 former slaves, and hundreds of photographs. What is so shattering is the matter-of-fact tone of what the former slaves said : "If a woman was a good breeder she brought a good price on the auction block," said Hattie Rogers, a North Carolina resident, when she was interviewed in 1937. "The slave buyers would come around and jab them in the stomach and look them over and if they thought they would have children fast they brought a good price.". Mary Armstrong, 91 and living in Houston when she was interviewed, said the person who owned her family was "so mean he never would sell the man and woman and (children) to the same one. He'd sell the man here and the woman there and if (there were children) he'd sell them someplace else.". Stearlin Arnwine, who was 94 and living near Jacksonville, Texas, when he was interviewed, said he would see slaves on the auction block, stripped to the waist for inspection by potential buyers. Women and their children, he said, would be crying and begging "not to be separated," but it did no good: "They had to go.". Story after story after story the ugliest and most indefensible chapter of American history !!!...
