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Subject: Daily digest for February 20, 2011 06:00 am
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Date: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 10:00 PM
(CNN) -Protests in two states have brought familiar Democratic faces back into the fold this week.
Former Gov. Ted Strickland called on Democratic supporters Saturday to join protests at the Ohio statehouse, one day after former Sen. Russ Feingold joined protesters at the Wisconsin capitol in Madison.
What both states have in common are defiant responses to legislative measures that would limit collective bargaining rights for state workers. Read more of this postAdd a comment to this post
African Americans' use of the legal system is important, given the trajectory of Reconstruction. T
Born December 25, 1849, son of John and Marilyn Butler. John was owned by Frank Collier and Marilyn by Ben Butler, both of Washington-Wilkes, Georgia. Ellen Butts (TX). Born near Centerville, Virginia. Mentions masters named William and Conrad, and a Dr. Fatchitt, who bought a birth-defective infant slave and pickled her in a jar
Washington (CNN)-(CNN) -- The nation's most energy-efficient National Christmas Tree
doesn't appear to be the nation's most energy-resistant one. The 42-foot tall Colorado blue spruce snapped at its base during high winds Saturday morning in Washington.
Sustained winds at 25 miles per hour and wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour swept through the area and snapped the tree 4 feet above the ground, the National Park Service said in a statement. Read more of this post
The Browns, one of the great mercantile families of colonial America, were Rhode Island slave traders. At least six of them -- James and his brother Obadiah, and James's four sons, Nicholas, John, Joseph, and Moses -- ran one of the biggest slave-trading businesses in New England, and for more than half a century the family reaped huge profits from the slave trade. "When James Brown sent the Mary to Africa in 1736, he launched Providence into the Negro traffic and laid the foundation for the Brown fortune. From this year until 1790, the Browns played a commanding role in the New England slave trade."[1] Their donations to Rhode Island College were so generous that the name was changed to Brown University.        
(CNN) -- Democratic Oregon Rep. David Wu has admitted to seeking medical help following a tumultuous re-election campaign last fall.
"I freely admit that it was an intense campaign, and I was not always at my best with staff or constituents. For all those moments, I wish I'd been better and I apologize," he said. Read more of this postBy Lynn Ford
(Originally published in The Star, February, 1990)
Early black settlers faced discrimination, even death
Indiana's early black settlers could not vote, serve on juries or testify in court against whites. Barred from public schools, they learned in private institutions run by black churches. And under an 1831 law, blacks had to post a $500 bond "as security for their good behavior." Blacks without such a bond could be sold to the highest bidder for six months.
By the 1850s, Indiana had more than 2,500 black residents, 23 percent of whom worked in skilled trades. But discrimination remained: A judge in Indianapolis dismissed the case of a black youth beaten by a white man because the witnesses were black and, "therefore, incompetent."
Before the Civil War, when blacks made up only 5 percent of the Indianapolis population, white mobs angered by the abolitionist movement often attacked blacks indiscriminately, leaving death and destruction. Monuments to black achievement in Indianapolis - ranging from businesses to the historic Bethel African Methodist Episcopal and Second Baptist churches - fell to "mysterious" fires.
On Independence Day 1848, a black man, John Tucker, described in The Indianapolis Sentinel as "a steady, inoffensive man who had purchased his freedom many years ago in Kentucky," reportedly was beaten to death Downtown by "a group of drunken whites." Only one arrest was made.
(CNN)--President Obama turned his attention to education during his weekly address as he discussed another aspect of how he believes the nation can "win the future." Obama acknowledged that "Over the next ten years, nearly half of all new jobs will require education beyond high school."
He delivered the address from outside Portland, Oregon, while visiting Intel, a company that he said models how "instead of just being a nation that buys what's made overseas, we can make things in America and sell them around the globe. Read more of this postRoughly speaking, slavery in the North can be divided into two regions. New England slaves numbered only about 1,000 in 1708, but that rose to more than 5,000 in 1730 and about 13,000 by 1750. New England also was the center of the slave trade in the colonies, supplying captive Africans to the South and the Caribbean island. Black slaves were a valuable shipping commodity that soon proved useful at home, both in large-scale agriculture and in ship-building. The Mid-Atlantic colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania) had been under Dutch rule before the British conquered them in 1664. African slavery in the middle colonies had been actively encouraged by the Dutch authorities, and this was continued by the British.
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Washington (CNN) --(CNN) -- The House of Representatives passed a government spending bill
after a marathon session Saturday morning that slashes more than $60 billion in federal funding for the seven months remaining in the 2011 fiscal year.
The vote on the GOP measure won by a 235-189 margin, at a vote that occurred right before 5 a.m.. The fight over spending now moves to the Senate. Read more of this post| This conception of private and public is different from the one now current in the historiography of the nineteenth-century South. This scholarship tends to construe the interests of domestic dependents and the dynamics involving dependents within households—including wife-beating, child abuse, incest, and violence against slaves—as inherently private, insofar as they were separate and excluded from the public realm of law and politics. As a result, one tendency in the scholarship is to assume either that the legal system did not handle such issues or that it gave them cursory attention. The other is to assume that they represented either a disruption or a challenge to the public order when they did appear. In the context of the slave South, historians explain that situation in terms of the concept of dependency, which incorporates race and class as well as gender. Only those who could be independent—that is, white men with property or the capacity to acquire it—could claim the civil and political rights necessary to participate directly in matters on the public side of the line. Excluded from public participation were all those people—slaves, white women, free blacks, and even propertyless white men—whose gender, race, and class marked them with dependency, which signaled the incapacity for self-governance and, by extension, the governance of others.47 | 36 | | In fact, domestic dependents and domestic issues are categorized as private in the legal texts on which nineteenth-century historians have tended to rely—appellate decisions, statutes, and the writings of reformers who favored changes that would elevate those bodies of law. But those sources are limited in their representation of southern legal culture. At issue is the fact that appellate courts and legislatures were not the only or even the primary locus of legal authority in the South for much of the period between the Revolution and the Civil War. Nor did the statutes and decisions produced in these arenas define a comprehensive body of law applicable throughout the entire state, although they held more sway in property issues than they did over criminal matters and other public legal issues. While appellate decisions and statutes acquired more legal authority in all areas of law by the 1830s, they did not assume their place at the top of the legal hierarchy until Reconstruction. Indeed, scholarship that includes local court records provides a very different picture of the legal process.48 |
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