historian Robert E. May reviewed plantation owners’ diaries, periodicals, memoirs, as well as oral accounts from those formerly enslaved to see what really happened on plantations at Christmas. Here, he talks to TIME about the most shocking examples and how unpacking Lost Cause myths can help tell a fuller picture of the history of slavery.
I think historians have mostly overlooked the link between northern anti-slavery politics and the Christmas slave insurrection panics that occurred in the South. These panics often occurred over Christmastime because the guard of white people was down. Southern whites knew that there was a history of slave insurrections coming from the Caribbean and South America. Some of the worst insurrections of all time occurred over Christmas in places likeAnd of course, some enslaved people in the U.S.
According to the main components of the myths of Christmas in the late antebellum period—1831 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861—slaveholders showed their concern for their slaves by what they gave them at Christmas. Mistresses would go down to the quarters and distribute little presents; there might be pipes for the men, aprons for the women, toys for the children. [The enslaved] were allowed to go literally anywhere they want; they could visit a relative or staff on another plantation.
Life in slavery was not good at anytime, unless you were the ones who took being served as a given.
i see a lot of white christians in this thread are bent out of shape
Well yeah, obviously slaves didn’t have a great time on Christmas. Did anyone think otherwise?
More racebaiting from the leftist mob
This sounds horrible. It is important to note however that no whitey alive today had any involvement in what took place 150 years ago.
(((Hmmm.. The writer seems to have an agenda, what could it be?)))
And how they may have worked with the Union behind the scenes?
Do you have any stories of good slave owners?
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