tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post1693663059686486652..comments2023-04-24T03:00:50.476-04:00Comments on NOLA radfem blog: "They" Aren't Supposed to Live in the WHITE House, Right?NOLA radfemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11905750843042076110noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-29786011670736749462010-05-09T22:11:35.484-04:002010-05-09T22:11:35.484-04:00What an interesting post.
It sees we are third co...What an interesting post. <br />It sees we are third cousins. That is if my consanguinity table reading is correct. My great-great grandfather Hector Adam Himel was your great-great grandmother's brother. I would love to talk with you sometime. <br />Have you finished law school?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-58786156918313729872008-08-18T04:22:00.000-04:002008-08-18T04:22:00.000-04:00I got some of the steamboat material (like the fed...I got some of the steamboat material (like the federal accident reports) at the state archives. I haven't tried Lexis-Nexis. I am out of law school at the moment (and personal subscriptions to Lexis-Nexus are quite expensive), but when I am once again in law school, I will try that route. That's an interesting idea!NOLA radfemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11905750843042076110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-82046838981566040662008-08-17T19:50:00.000-04:002008-08-17T19:50:00.000-04:00You're welcome. More stuff: The Petitions Projec...You're welcome. More stuff: The Petitions Project might be a good example of a website/searchable database...Petitions submitted to state legislatures regarding slavery. Have you gone to the state archives to find the materials on the cases? I bet the cases were reported in LexisNexis, a database for court decisions.PVWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12410310404539584350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-373533634759354192008-08-17T19:19:00.000-04:002008-08-17T19:19:00.000-04:00Thanks, PioneerValleyWoman.I will check that site ...Thanks, PioneerValleyWoman.<BR/><BR/>I will check that site out!<BR/><BR/>I want to take ALL of the slave-related materials I have and put them online. I've read that this is the most helpful thing descedants of slaveholders can do to help trace the families of slaves - take anything you have and put it online as soon as possible (per Ball, author of "Slaves in the Family," and others). Some of it seems to have ended up in storage (my husband's black hole) when we moved, but I am about to go back to the library, start making copies, and post it all somewhere. It haunts me to think that right NOW, this information could be the link someone is looking for.NOLA radfemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11905750843042076110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-48467305647200717692008-08-17T17:34:00.000-04:002008-08-17T17:34:00.000-04:00Hi!I saw a link to you through What Tami Said. Gr...Hi!<BR/><BR/>I saw a link to you through What Tami Said. <BR/><BR/>Great post!<BR/><BR/>I have seen lots of scholarly materials on cases involving liberating slaves, similar to what you have described. If you go to ssrn.com, you can find some stuff written by someone named Jones. Last name begins with a B, I believe.PVWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12410310404539584350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-21606006377038110412008-08-16T01:15:00.000-04:002008-08-16T01:15:00.000-04:00Hi, Foxessa. Thank you for the information about ...Hi, Foxessa. Thank you for the information about Twain, New Orleans, and Scott.<BR/><BR/>One question - you wrote that Grant won the war for Lincoln. I had always thought that Sherman did, what with that march to the sea and burning everything in his path (lol). I thought that was what finally did it.NOLA radfemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11905750843042076110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-17636791667452426192008-08-14T11:31:00.000-04:002008-08-14T11:31:00.000-04:00Here are Twain's most pertinent comments about Sco...Here are Twain's most pertinent comments about Scott and the South (BTW, I still love Scott's works, and will read one of his books at least once a year).<BR/><BR/>You find his first remarks about Scott, his work and the South in his memoir of his youthful experience on the Mississippi steamboats, <I>Life on the Mississippi</I>, concerning Mardi Gras (though he isn't entirely correct with all his facts about Mardi Gra; for instance the first Mardi Gras parades were in Mobile).<BR/><BR/>"Mardi-Gras is of course a relic of the French and Spanish occupation; but I judge that the religious feature has been pretty well knocked out of it now. Sir Walter has got the advantage of the gentlemen of the cowl and rosary, and he will stay. His medieval business, supplemented by the monsters and the oddities, and the pleasant creatures from fairy-land, is finer to look at than the poor fantastic inventions and performances of the reveling rabble of the priest's day, and serves quite as well, perhaps, to emphasize the day and admonish men that the grace-line between the worldly season and the holy one is reached.<BR/><BR/>This Mardi-Gras pageant was the exclusive possession of New Orleans until recently. But now it has spread to Memphis and St. Louis and Baltimore. It has probably reached its limit. It is a thing which could hardly exist in the practical North; would certainly last but a very brief time; as brief a time as it would last in London. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque. Take away the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and big-sounding titles, and Mardi-Gras would die, down there in the South. The very feature that keeps it alive in the South--girly-girly romance--would kill it in the North or in London. Puck and Punch, and the press universal, would fall upon it and make merciless fun of it, and its first exhibition would be also its last."<BR/><BR/>Then, from a letter to his married sister, Pamela Moffett (March, 1859), "It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he as seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans."<BR/><BR/>To add to understanding how Twain reached his position, I have noticed in my readings in the last 2 - 3 years of Scotland's splendid detective and police fiction, how much the fantasy romantization of the Old South and the American Western play in the cultural life. It's referred to in the background and in the music playing, and even the decor of clubs and homes, and sometimes even the plots. The audience is probably not much surprised to see this in Rankin's Rebus series,for instance. It's even more obvious in the television series made based on these books. But this audience was surprised to find how much C&W music is in even the television series, <I>Monarch of the Glen</I>.<BR/> <BR/>Twain, like many reasonable people, objected to history and romance brought together, and you have to think, particularly with the creation of the KKK, he had more than one solid point on his side. However, yhe shelves of West Point's library was packed with historical romance novels.<BR/>General Grant, who won the Civil War for President Lincoln, read Scott and Cooper both with greater pleasure than he pursued his studies while he was at West Point. (p. 12, Perry, in <I>Grant and Twain</I>, from <I>Grant a Biography</I>)<BR/><BR/>Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-46977410235334328932008-08-14T11:04:00.000-04:002008-08-14T11:04:00.000-04:00Here via K.I have the Twain quotes. There's more ...Here via K.<BR/><BR/>I have the Twain quotes. There's more than one.<BR/><BR/>I can send them if you like.<BR/><BR/>Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-24016402028673211152008-08-13T23:19:00.000-04:002008-08-13T23:19:00.000-04:00Thanks! I worked my butt off linking the photos. ...Thanks! I worked my butt off linking the photos. Sometimes blogspot has a mind of its own. It goes back and changes what I've already done.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I don't imagine that Twain would have thought much of the Scott outlook among southerners! I'll have to try to find the quote. Now I'm curious.<BR/><BR/>It's nice to have books that have been in the family for almost 140 years, inscribed and everything. My mother has promised that they will eventually be mine. I've been coveting them since I was about 12 years old.NOLA radfemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11905750843042076110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8564423610152905781.post-80401223082690258032008-08-13T21:46:00.000-04:002008-08-13T21:46:00.000-04:00Outstanding post. I'm going to link to it tomorrow...<I>Outstanding</I> post. I'm going to link to it tomorrow.<BR/><BR/>Mark Twain detested Walter Scott and the false nobility he inspired among southern slave holders. I forget the exact reference, but he mocks Scott at some point during <I>Huckleberry Finn.</I>K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.com