hutch wrote:
It’s way worse than that! Cotton said slavery was a “necessary evil”!
Perhaps we should make him pick cotton and whip his ass.
I hope this doesn't denigrate this thread, but the mention of cotton made me think of this story….
When my grandfather (from GA) was 7, his dad remarried (his mom had died), and his new mom pulled my grandfather and his siblings out of school and made them go work full time in the cotton fields…while leaving her own children in school. My grandfather, with only a second grade education, never did learn how to read or write. He eventually ran away from home in his early teen years, and lived as a hobo on trains for a while in the 30's.
But he did manage to marry up. My grandmother (from TN) made it through eighth grade. Her schooling stopped when her one room schoolhouse burned down. Apparently that was a decent education back then, as she eventually taught school at one point in her working career.
I hope I'm remembering that correctly. It may have been tobacco fields instead of cotton, I'm not sure.
But I digress. My grandfather was a complete piece of racist shit who abused everyone in his path. I wonder what he would have been if his dad hadn't remarried the wicked stepmom.
