[Vision2020] Teabaggers

Thu Mar 11 14:00:12 PST 2010

To my friend Donovan,

In the matter of T. Jefferson,

"Thomas Jefferson made a habit of inspecting his plantation in the  
afternoon to monitor the work of the 150 slaves who worked at  
Monticello and his outlying farms. Always interested in measurements  
and record-keeping, Jefferson made extensive notations about his  
slaves and their duties in his Farm Book and Memorandum Books. For  
instance, he noted the rations his overseer distributed, the number of  
yards he purchased for clothing, the daily task required by particular  
slaves, and the cost of items purchased for use in the kitchen."

As to his paternity problems, "Although the relationship between  
Jefferson and Sally Hemings has been for many years, and will surely  
continue to be, a subject of intense interest to historians and the  
public, the evidence is not definitive, and the complete story may  
never be known. The Foundation encourages its visitors and patrons,  
based on what evidence does exist, to make up their own minds as to  
the true nature of the relationship."

But those come from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the group that  
owns Monticello, but they should probably contact you for the real  
story.
The truth is out there..................

I strongly suggest you read both "The Hemingses of Monticello" and   
"Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings", both by Annette Gordon-Reed.
If you can't find them I'm sure that Book People of Moscow can get  
them for you.

On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:

> Rev. Keely, nobody is defending slavery. Let me say it twice so even  
> you understand, NOBODY is defending slavery. I was just explaining  
> inaccuracies in his (Mr. Price's) posts about Thomas Jefferson  
> sleeping with his slaves and George Washington being a large slave  
> owner. They are factually incorrect statements.
>
>
> I forgot, accuracy of the facts was not a concern for you, just  
> unfounded misguided displays of fake catty emotional outrage, Keely  
> when slandering people on both the local and national level, living  
> and dead.
>
> Your Friend,
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On Thu, 3/11/10, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:
>
> From: keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Teabaggers
> To: donovanjarnold2008 at yahoo.com, garrettmc at verizon.net, "Chris  
> Price" <bear at moscow.com>
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 3:37 PM
>
> This eloquent defense of slave-owning American Presidents is  
> something less than heartening.  It's almost as if we've heard  
> similar arguments before from local folks interested in convincing  
> us that, you know, on the whole, slavery wasn't, like, THAT bad,  
> really.
>
> That George and Thomas are numbered among anti-slavery  
> abolitionists, as appears to be the contention here, is as ludicrous  
> as it is offensive.  They may not have been the absolutely worst  
> slaveholders ever, but I don't think either man's biographies are  
> testimonies to their egalitarian, Christian, progressive morals.
>
> Keely
> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
>
>
>
>
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:48:58 -0800
> From: donovanjarnold2008 at yahoo.com
> To: garrettmc at verizon.net; bear at moscow.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Teabaggers
>
> Wayne,
>
> The tea was tipped overboard not because most people drank it, but  
> because it denied revenue to the British. The average colonists  
> didn't want to be independent from the British, but they were not  
> happy under them either.
>
> The British government prevented western expansion which seriously  
> hindered the expansion of the economy and the well being of many  
> western colonists and farmers.
>
> Thomas Jefferson bought slaves and freed them when they paid their  
> price of purchase off. Many anti-slavery people did this.
>
> Thomas Jefferson did not sleep with his slaves, DNA tests from his  
> know relatives prove this. His brother did sleep with Sally  
> Hemmings, who was the half sister of his wife who passed away and  
> looked a great deal like her. He cared for her greatly and she lived  
> in his house because she was his wife's sister and didn't want her  
> living as a common slave.
> George Washington had willed his slaves to be freed upon the death  
> of his wife. Although she freed them earlier because she felt  
> uncomfortable with all the slaves asking if she was dead yet (a  
> little humor, but true). Little do people know, but George  
> Washington did not own many slaves, his wife owned most them, she  
> obtained from her previous husband, Daniel Parke Custis a wealthy  
> plantation farmer, upon his death.
>
> Your Friend,
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
>
> --- On Thu, 3/11/10, Wayne Price <bear at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> From: Wayne Price <bear at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Teabaggers
> To: "Garrett Clevenger" <garrettmc at verizon.net>
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 12:52 AM
>
> Garrett,
>
> While the Tea Bag movement has hijacked the name, I'm not so sure  
> they even realize what the 1770's movements were all about!
> The average colonist was happy being British!
>
> At that time in the colonies, TEA was not the drink of the average  
> (read that as NOT wealthy) colonist.  Rather they drank cider,  
> because they could make
> it locally, and could afford it. Ever wonder why real tea chests of  
> the period have a locks on them? Because it was expensive and the  
> rich didn't want the servants to
> steal it!   The original so called "patriots" were nothing more than  
> a bunch of folks with money trying to avoid taxes. Sound familiar?
>
>
> Same deal with the folks that shot at government troops on their way  
> to and from Lexington and Concord to bring the GOVERNMENT owned arms  
> and powder back
> to Boston, so the colonists/traitors/early american terrorists   
> couldn't use it. Can you imagine today if that happened? Makes me  
> wonder what would happen if the
> average citizens marched on the local National Guard armories so  
> that they could prevent the government from using the arms! Think  
> they would be considered
> "patriots"?
>
>
> I have to laugh when I see the fractured history that  George  
> Nethercutt is trying to sell on TV..... Did the boy never read a  
> history book!  I laughed when I saw one about
> George Washington being anti-slavery!  One of the richest slave  
> OWNERS in Virginia at the time! And then there is that scion of  
> colonial america Thomas Jefferson,
> he not only owned slaves, but would bed them too!  Or was that just  
> for the benefit of the slaves?
>
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>
>
> On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Garrett Clevenger wrote:
>
> Thanks, Joe, you summed up well what I've been thinking.
>
> It is rather presumptious of the teabaggers to think their "tea  
> party movement" is anything close to the real deal back when the  
> colonies were fighting for independence.
>
> The contemporary tea partiers are more like carpetbaggers in that  
> regard, so it seems "teabagger" is a rather appropriate term.
>
> I have no idea what the sexual definition of teabagger is and don't  
> really care to so when I say "teabagger" I'm describing "tea party"  
> people who are exploiting the patriotism of the Boston Tea Party.
>
> But are we really surprised that people who carry guns in the open  
> to rallies and shout down those who disagree with them would be  
> anything less than arrogant?
>
> Teabaggers, indeed.
>
> Garrett Clevenger
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