tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953690364532718935.post26045076428680033..comments2024-03-10T15:20:30.552-05:00Comments on stmhumanities: People's History of AmericaMrs.Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17626503384057111894noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953690364532718935.post-9995169556798318082012-03-18T23:58:50.328-05:002012-03-18T23:58:50.328-05:00I need to post again this week... anyway I found a...I need to post again this week... anyway I found a passage about slave marrage in A People's History of America:<br />"Old letters and records dug out by historiean Herbert Gutman (The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom) show the stubborn resistance of the slave family to pressures of disintegration. A Woman wrote to her son from whom she had been seperated for twenty years: "I long to see you in my old age... Now my dear son I pray you come and see your dear old Mother... I love you Cato you love your Mother - You are my only son..." And a man wrote to his wife, sold away from him with their children: "send me some of the children's hair in a separate paper with their names on the paper... I had rather anything to had happend to me most then ever to have been parted form you and the children... Laura I do love you the same..." Going through records of slave marriages, Gutman found how high was the incidence of marrage amonge slave men and women, and how stable these marriages were. He studied the remarkably complete records kept on one South Carolina plantation. He found a birth register of two hundered slaves extended from the eighteenth century to just before the Civil War; it showed stable kin networks, steadfast marriages, unusual fidelity, and reisitance to forced marriages. Slaves hung determinedly to their selves, to their love of family, their wholeness."sara pendletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12492351949736228056noreply@blogger.com