“A Slave in the White House”: James Madison and his slaves

[roguevalley]

2. tragic complexity we are still living with.

this said by a gal whose lovely mama always thought her family fought for the north. they were an anomaly in their little town, totally and completely firm about the need for equal treatment of everyone. However, they came from a slave owning family of long standing in Carolina (before it divided) Virginia and Missouri. One of my g.g.ma was a cousin of Jefferson Davis. To say my mother was wounded to know this at long last understates things but I told her that makes her family's beliefs and relentless teaching of them all the more a miracle.

I love you, Mama, Grandpa and Grandma and Great Grandma and Grandpa. They saw the stink of it and killed it in the family as best they could because of it. Sometimes one person CAN change the world.