Life as Slaves (till the early 60's)

abc ^ | 12/20/03

[ikka]

Their story, which ABCNEWS has not confirmed independently.

TRANSLATION: This is another Tawana Brawley hoax, but it advances the socialist agenda, so...

[quidnunc]

This sounds decidedly fishy to me.

[TheSpottedOwl]

What??????

[G.Mason]

Sounds like this will make a good soap opera.

They could call it "Roots That Never Got Pulled".

[vbmoneyspender]

I read this whole story (and I do mean story)and not once in the story do they say who kept them enslaved for decades. No names are mentioned, nor any descriptions provided. I guess it must have been the ghost of Jefferson Davis doing this.

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

I think what happened to Mr. Wall and the Millers (if accurately protrayed) is totally disgraceful and criminally actionable.

But, I don't see how it equates to a class action lawsuit in Chicago seeking reparations for the 35 million African-Americans who are descendants of slaves.

[EggsAckley]

Yeah. Why would they NOT disclose those evil slave keepers?



Maybe because they don't exist.

[OK]

I have lived in Mississippi before and have been all over the Delta. It is possible that something like this went on in certain backwater areas, but only pre-1960's. After that I would doubt it.

[mylife]

Yes, Who the Hell is They? Are They in jail? Do They have names?

[bigfootbob]

"I guess it must have been the ghost of Jefferson Davis doing this."

Come on now. You've been around here long enough to know it's GWB's who's at fault. ;)

[tbird5]

Puhleeze! Looking for money, I guess.

[jocon307]

Yes, and here's my question, how did their "enslavement" come to an end? I'd like to hear that part of the story. And, amazingly, their dad is still alive, at over 100 years, so he would have been already in his sixties in the 1960s, and these women are fairly old too.

Looking at the picture they don't appear to be terrible poor. Of course that is one thing about American culture since the 1960s, you can't tell who is rich or poor by their clothing.

And btw, since when does ABC offer up unverified news?

[bigfootbob]

"Looking for money, I guess."

Ya think?

[Mr. Mojo]

.....but it advances the socialist agenda, so...

"the ends justify the means."

[T'wit]

Slavery certainly did survive in some deep-south prisons such as Angola in Louisiana and Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas. The inmates were literally owned by the ruling political party (Democrats, of course). The governor could and did order work details from prison to do yard work or even construction on his own house, or for friends, and it was all free. Not until quite recent times did the inmates get paid even a pittance for their labor -- and when they did, the politicians found a way to exploit that too.

Bill Clinton exploited Cummins prisoners for millions of dollars in his tainted blood scheme during his six terms as governor. Almost all of the prison blood plasma donors have died from cross-contamination. God only knows how many others have died from the tainted blood Clinton and his associates sold. The "bloodhounds" of Free Republic traced that diseased plasma all over the world, and everywhere it caused outbreaks of Hepatitis C and AIDS.

[Savage Beast]

I'm sure it'll come as a surprise to the yahoos at ABC, but de facto AND de jure slavery is very much alive and florishing TODAY in the islamic theocracies of Africa.

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

Just one more item to add to the seemingly unending list of Clinton accomplishments for the betterment of humanity.

[OK]

There are a lot of unanswered questions, especially the one about who did the enslaving.

It is easy to make fun of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the like, but before the 1960's blacks did have a tough time and we shouldn't make light of that.

One county in Mississippi used to have a literacy test for voting, pre 1960's. The one for whites was in English and the one for blacks was in Chinese.

And by the way, there are still blacks all over the South living in uninsulated shacks that look like the door is ready to fall off and you might break through a floorboard if you step in the wrong place. I have seen it myself.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There was a book that I read at least twenty years ago a long this line. "The Emancipation of Robert Saddler" I believe it was suppose to be non-fiction.

Not saying it's true. Not saying it isn't. Just pointing out that this has been around for a while.