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| A Reconstructed Slave Cabin At Mount Vernon |
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7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Here is a very important question that has been long ignored in American history: Can people who forcibly held other people in cruel, life-long forced labor be legitimately honored as freedom loving? A tiny new cabin at Mount Vernon raises a huge inconsistency in American history. It is a reconstructed slave cabin, similar to the ones that housed the forced laborers who were daily brutalized into working in George Washington's fields. A recent news story about that slave cabin quoted a letter written in 1798 by a Polish visitor to Mount Vernon as saying that: "the huts of the Blacks, for one cannot call them by the name of houses" are "wretched" and "more miserable than the most miserable of the cottages of our peasants." Let me rephrase the question: If a person sincerely loves freedom from deep in his heart, can he or she take away another man's freedom and make him live like an animal in his back yard? Do genuine lovers of liberty enslave other human beings? |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| Absolutely not! |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| Thank you, voice. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| The only enslavement should be us as believers being slaves to Jesus!!We should never enslave a person!! |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| Now that's the truth, Jimmy. We are called to be slaves of Jesus. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| I've always wondered why they could "see" so much of the Truth yet miss what is right before their own eyes. That makes me wonder what WE are now missing... We think we know and understand the Word of God but how many "wretched huts" are we overlooking in our own lives? Unsettling thought. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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Wow. I am reading a slave narrative right now. Christ has set us free.
The history of African Americans really just breaks my heart every time. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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Throughout history, slavery has been in existence. This does not mean that it is right though.
The blacks of this country had it bad, yes, but was it worse than any other countries slaves?
I don't know of any living black slaves from our past. Why do we still keep bringing this issue to the fore-front. Do we as a nation still practice slavery? NO. Was the slavery bad? YES. Were conditions bad? Of course. But it is over, blacks in this country want everyone to remember as if they are still under the whip.
But what of the Chinese slaves, or the conquered nations of Egypt? Paul even spoke of slaves and how they should be treated by believing masters, and how believing slaves should obey their masters. How about the slavery of the Hebrews under Babylon, the Brits under Rome? Let us move on, put this time of our history where it belongs, in history. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| If I take any other view than that of seeing through the eyes of Jesus, than I am a servant of sin and in bondage. If I walk in the Light of His Word that means I am walking in truth and love and my desire is to see people set free from ANY type of bondage, and that is my desire. It is important to know true history but life-giving to know His story, and the day is far spent, and now more than ever I must put off the old Jeff and and get into living the Truth I already know. Paul had something to say about slaves, to be obedient to thier masters, because he knew that some day a slave would lay his hands on a master and he would be healed or raised from the dead by the power of Christ, and that power is still at work today. I wish that we could get the becoming "all things to all men, that some might be converted and receive Jesus." I don't think Paul was condoning slavery, I believe that he was giving godly instruction to slaves to show that Jesus is no respecter of persons and His love is for all. Greg Laurie always says that as Christians we are known more for what we are against than what we are for, and I'm not saying that that is the case with your line of questioning, it is thought provoking and inspiring me to dig more into the word and appreciate the absolute freedom I am experiencing in Him each day that He allows me to live. Thank you, you helped me to think today. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| As Christians it is important to walk in the light and deal with reality. Denial is no good. If we acknowledge and are proud about the good things in our history, we should also acknowledge and be sorry for the bad things. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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Yes, we should acknowledge the history of this, but not dwell on that bad time in our history.
You say "be sorry for the bad things"
The only one I am sorry TOO, is Christ, I can not apologize to a people that are all asleep awaiting the final judgement. Nor can I apologize for people that perpetrated these acts that have also been asleep for years.
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| Don't tell Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton the location of this cabin. They'll want the government to give them some money because of this is where slaves dwelt.Why can't we get some folks out of the past? There's a tribe of American Indians looking to reclaim lands that were stole from them in Rock Hill South Carolina. The land has been divided into lots and houses built on it, people living in these houses calling them homes. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| Very true, Gary. However, we can admit that the people who perpetrated those acts were terrible human rights violaters. |
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| October 08, 2008 |
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| Hey Praise, it is called history. Should all of us who celebrate the 4th of July also "get out of the past"? |
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| October 09, 2008 |
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| Destiny: Slave narratives are powerful literature. Everybody should read at least one. They bring home the point that the horrible cruelty of slavery was not just a story, but a reality that was perpetuated on millions of people who lived in America. |
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| October 09, 2008 |
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Steve: yes, we can admit that what was done was terrible, but my problem is not that issue, the problem I have is when I am told I should apologize for what was done to someones great grandparents for something I did not do, or to be told that my tax dollars will be used to for reparations to someone that is no longer living.
Yes, we do have a violent past, but is it any worse than other countries' pasts?
your original thought on this was "Can people who forcibly held other people in cruel, life-long forced labor be legitimately honored as freedom loving?"
what we fail to realize on this subject of slavery is that in that time period it was considered ok,
and acceptable to own slaves, who were sold to the market largely by their own race in Africa.
Times and cultures change, to us now it is reprehensible to think of owning slaves, but in that time period it was not.
There are many things in the past that we no longer accept as the normal now.
Because of change in our cultures, blacks are now free to own business, be CEO's, ect, just as women are now free to do the same.
We still have problems, but we are always improving.
But when a race/gender is constantly bringing up what was done to their great grandparents, and trying to shame me for something that I never participated in, this is why we still have race problems, because of constantly dwelling in the past, instead of seeing the improvements that have been made.
As to slavery, the blacks in this country are not the only slaves that had very difficult times, as stated earlier. In fact we now have a problem with a new type of slave market, but we don't hear much about it, there is such a huge market out now for white women and children being used as sex slaves, women and children being taken from their homes or off the streets and sold into the horrible dens of sin. |
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| May 26, 2009 |
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One might ask if one form of slavery has been traded for another...slavery to the Democratic party and cradle to grave bondage...give me a break...Nothing personal, Steve, but you show colossal ignorance here...George Washington, along with the majority of the Founding Fathers, were opposed to slavery...many of them were members of abolitionist societies...You know, there's SO much info out there, there's just no reason for this...Why do we think blacks are the only people who were slaves!!! This is pure STUPIDITY! The first court case pertaining to slavery involved a black man who owned slaves...yep, that's right, folks...You don't hear THAT taught in schools, do you? Or how about the fact that blacks enslaved blacks and sold them into slavery...Missed that class, too, did you? Somebody give the black community the memo...they've been set free! |
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| May 27, 2009 |
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Debbie:
If Washington opposed slavery why did he hold a lot of human slaves in forced labor on his plantation? Robert Carter III was the 2nd largest slave holder in VA. After he met Jesus Christ he was convicted of his sin so he set his slaves, about 430 people, free at great financial cost.
Do you call everything you disagree with STUPIDITY?
P.S. What does a person's color have to do with anything?
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