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Salena Boyd's avatar

Yes, I still blame Tom Cotton for his slave owning ancestors because he learned from them how to hate Supreme Court nominees, Ketanji Brown Jackson, like a slave, when he drilled her; the same as his slave owning ancestors treated their slaves. He acted like her master. . And So did Mistress Senator Blackburn. However, during slavery, as-well as right now, white women hated their female slaves, they saw them as sexual competitors, rather than as free sex for the Master; black slave women weren't humans, they were only pathetic, pitiful property...! Mercy, mercy...

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Acadia's avatar

Jacob and Elizabeth (Holland) Cowger on the other side of the tree you made were also slaveowners. One of the women they enslaved-- Maggie Westmoland-- was interviewed in the WPA slave narratives if you want to know exactly how brutally she was treated and kept enslaved and abused even after the war ended. The spelling of their last name is "Cargo" in her narrative, but there is enough other biographical info to confirm she's speaking about the Cowgers.

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