Sometimes a historical document looks dry and innocuous. That is until you study it. My daughter came upon these old market bills recently. They recount things of horror.
Bounties on Indigineous
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I want to keep this simple. This first one establishes bounties for killing American Indigineous people. It is evidence of mass murder.
Evidence of Rape
This second one is a bill of sale for slaves. What makes it particularly ugly is that the slaves are portrayed as "mulattos" and "creoles," which in the language of New Orleans of the time, were "mixed breed", it is possible that the master of the children for sale, could even be the children of the owner. This was a horror.
My Daughter got rid of these things. They are vile. It is a vile memory, and it is sad, some of our ancestors did these things, casualty and with no real consciousness of their evil.
I won't be coming back to this subject, I hope.
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