She will have to be removed from office and tossed on the junk pile with everything else related to Jackson and lee.
Posted on 08/23/2017 12:19:55 PM PDT by Kozy
Will Jet Li be in trouble? Can we still refer to the leeward side of a ship?
For anyone who is offended by having money with portraits of slave owners I will gladly take it off your hands and properly dispose of it for you.
She will have to be removed from office and tossed on the junk pile with everything else related to Jackson and lee.
Lotta jeans are gonna get burned.
When is Sheila Jackson-Lee going to resign?
Jackson, AND Lee in her name.
Let’s start the pressure.
I saw the Nick clip in the early 80s. They rebroadcast the hour long program (night time) several times and I have it on audio tape somewhere.
I knew someone who did the same on MLK day. Talking about BB King, etc.
Here is a question with which to annoy liberals : One hundred years from now will the snowflakes be toppling statues of Obama because he ran for office multiple times on the premise that marriage is between a man and a woman?
Had a friend in school named Lee Davis...he’s doubly screwed!
What key? or did he char it?
I’m IN
“Like Washington, they were his wife’s slaves, which were dowry and therefore could not legally be freed. Nonetheless, he singed a document of manumission in 1862.”
Lee’s wife was in fact the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. And the slaves that his wife inherited upon her father’s death in 1857 originated with those who had belonged to Martha Washington.
Martha’s son from her first marriage, John Parke Custis, George Washington’s stepson, had been an aide to Washington at Yorktown, but died shortly afterwards of camp fever.
As a result of John Parke Custis’ death, GWP Custis was raised by George and Martha at Mount Vernon.
While George Washington freed his own slaves upon his death, those that Martha had brought into their marriage remained with her. GWP Custis inherited some and perhaps all of Martha’s slaves.
GWP Custis’ daughter Mary Anna Randolph Custis married Robert E Lee. GWP Custis died in 1857, with his will naming RE Lee as executor of the estate.
One of Custis’ requests was that his slaves be freed no later than 5 years after his death. This was complicated by the fact that the estate was in debt, and if the debts weren’t paid off then the slaves could be seized by the creditors, and then wouldn’t be freed. Lee worked the slaves to pay off the debt and they were freed in 1862.
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