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...
Tom Cotton is a horrible person, but I would guess most Americans if they did the research would find slave ancestors (if any part of your family goes back to the revolutionary period or earlier, or you have any Southern ancestors who came to this country before the Civil War). I researched my own family -- 7 of 8 great-grandparents were immigrants or children of immigrants post-Civil War. The ancestors of that final 8th great-grandparent lived in Northern states going back to the 1630s. But you know what, there was slavery in Northern states. At least two of my Scots-Irish ancestors who lived in New York in the 1700s owned slaves (between 1 and 5 at various censuses). They just immigrated here as good Presybterians from what's now Northern Ireland and immediately decided to buy other people.
It's easy to score points with stuff like this when the target is a racist politician. But this is the legacy of most white people in this country, and we all need to face our history and do better.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Get upset with him for something his great great great great ancestors did. Why not be upset with their ancestors who sold them? Oh, that’s right, doesn’t fit the narrative you’re trying to frame. Absolutely shameful journalism. Trash article.
My ancestors were enslaved by one Ms. Sophia Cotton and her sons in North Carolina. They eventually moved to Tennessee taking several Enslaved people with them. My grandfather was born in Tn in 1865...the first person born free on my maternal side. Are you able to tell me the best way to see if there is a connection?
Esha, this is not to attack you OR to "defend" Tom Cotton.
But if you're certain that the ancestor Jesse Cotton was "Jesse Hackney Cotton", with a wife named Rebecca and a son named Leonard...
The people who attempted to compile a family tree for the person buried in Yell County, Arkansas, under the name "Jesse Hackney Cotton", in 2015 linked an 1860 census putting him, his wife Rebecca, and his son Leonard in Missouri in 1860. That census has him born in Tennessee, and his wife born in Kentucky.
There is a "Jesy" Cotton in what was then Sevier County (both Jackson Township, where it has him and his family living, and Little River Township are now part of Little River County) on the 1860 census (born in NC, with a wife named Nancy (born in Alabama). This seems to be far more likely to be the "Jesse Cotton" listed as owning the slaves in Little River Township, Sevier County -- perhaps he was the technical "owner" but was renting them out to work on different property.
There is also a 23-year old "Jesse Cotton" boarding in Pulaski County, Arkansas, in the 1860 census, but he is too young to be Jesse Hackey Cotton.
I haven't dug into the Missouri census to learn if they had slaves there, or dug much further than that, but "Cotton" is FAR too common of a last name to be certain about a census being a certain person. It's hard enough to find your ancestors when they had absolutely unique names. You have to be sure of spouses/children (and even then sometimes you run into issues with the census takers not knowing how to spell -- my grandpa is listed as "Mervin", not "Marvin").
Can confirm a Leonard R. Cotton in Yell County applied for a disability-related Confederate pension in 1915, and that the father of Jesse Hackey Cotton, Noah Cotton, had slaves on the 1850 schedule in Tennessee. He died in 1858, and Jesse was his oldest child. It IS possible that he inherited them and then leased them in lower Arkansas while living in Missouri.
But the more likely explanation is that the "Jesy Cotton" in the township close by was the owner of those particular slaves, and perhaps even the father of the "Mulatto" three year old child.
Esha do you have any articles that you recommend to better understand the critique of the 1619 project? Colleagues have used it in their classrooms the last term and I would like to avoid it if it's truly inaccurate/harmful.
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.
What I don’t understand about Tom Cotton’s statement in the light of the family history you reveal is how the Senator thought his ancestors were going to extinguish their slave owning without the conflict of the Civil War and the 150+ years of history that followed. And, it would be interesting to follow up on the family’s genealogy & any activity these subsequent relatives might have had in the Jim Crow South or other ride by night activities. And, exactly how is the1619 Project Marxist propaganda? Invective is not reasoned discourse. I should think a veteran officer & graduate of Harvard College & Law would be capable of discourse that would generate more light & less heat on the topic.
You're doing the Lord's work, thank you. Now I wonder if any journalist.wktbnhavr the ovaries to bring this up. Also wouldn't be surprised if Cotton bad some relatives on the other side of the color line.
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...
Tom Cotton is a horrible person, but I would guess most Americans if they did the research would find slave ancestors (if any part of your family goes back to the revolutionary period or earlier, or you have any Southern ancestors who came to this country before the Civil War). I researched my own family -- 7 of 8 great-grandparents were immigrants or children of immigrants post-Civil War. The ancestors of that final 8th great-grandparent lived in Northern states going back to the 1630s. But you know what, there was slavery in Northern states. At least two of my Scots-Irish ancestors who lived in New York in the 1700s owned slaves (between 1 and 5 at various censuses). They just immigrated here as good Presybterians from what's now Northern Ireland and immediately decided to buy other people.
It's easy to score points with stuff like this when the target is a racist politician. But this is the legacy of most white people in this country, and we all need to face our history and do better.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Get upset with him for something his great great great great ancestors did. Why not be upset with their ancestors who sold them? Oh, that’s right, doesn’t fit the narrative you’re trying to frame. Absolutely shameful journalism. Trash article.
My name is Alto Cotton and I think this where our name came from slavery and my grandfather name was Arthur Cotton I want to know
My ancestors were enslaved by one Ms. Sophia Cotton and her sons in North Carolina. They eventually moved to Tennessee taking several Enslaved people with them. My grandfather was born in Tn in 1865...the first person born free on my maternal side. Are you able to tell me the best way to see if there is a connection?
Esha, this is not to attack you OR to "defend" Tom Cotton.
But if you're certain that the ancestor Jesse Cotton was "Jesse Hackney Cotton", with a wife named Rebecca and a son named Leonard...
The people who attempted to compile a family tree for the person buried in Yell County, Arkansas, under the name "Jesse Hackney Cotton", in 2015 linked an 1860 census putting him, his wife Rebecca, and his son Leonard in Missouri in 1860. That census has him born in Tennessee, and his wife born in Kentucky.
There is a "Jesy" Cotton in what was then Sevier County (both Jackson Township, where it has him and his family living, and Little River Township are now part of Little River County) on the 1860 census (born in NC, with a wife named Nancy (born in Alabama). This seems to be far more likely to be the "Jesse Cotton" listed as owning the slaves in Little River Township, Sevier County -- perhaps he was the technical "owner" but was renting them out to work on different property.
There is also a 23-year old "Jesse Cotton" boarding in Pulaski County, Arkansas, in the 1860 census, but he is too young to be Jesse Hackey Cotton.
I haven't dug into the Missouri census to learn if they had slaves there, or dug much further than that, but "Cotton" is FAR too common of a last name to be certain about a census being a certain person. It's hard enough to find your ancestors when they had absolutely unique names. You have to be sure of spouses/children (and even then sometimes you run into issues with the census takers not knowing how to spell -- my grandpa is listed as "Mervin", not "Marvin").
Can confirm a Leonard R. Cotton in Yell County applied for a disability-related Confederate pension in 1915, and that the father of Jesse Hackey Cotton, Noah Cotton, had slaves on the 1850 schedule in Tennessee. He died in 1858, and Jesse was his oldest child. It IS possible that he inherited them and then leased them in lower Arkansas while living in Missouri.
But the more likely explanation is that the "Jesy Cotton" in the township close by was the owner of those particular slaves, and perhaps even the father of the "Mulatto" three year old child.
Esha do you have any articles that you recommend to better understand the critique of the 1619 project? Colleagues have used it in their classrooms the last term and I would like to avoid it if it's truly inaccurate/harmful.
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.
What I don’t understand about Tom Cotton’s statement in the light of the family history you reveal is how the Senator thought his ancestors were going to extinguish their slave owning without the conflict of the Civil War and the 150+ years of history that followed. And, it would be interesting to follow up on the family’s genealogy & any activity these subsequent relatives might have had in the Jim Crow South or other ride by night activities. And, exactly how is the1619 Project Marxist propaganda? Invective is not reasoned discourse. I should think a veteran officer & graduate of Harvard College & Law would be capable of discourse that would generate more light & less heat on the topic.
Urgh It's anti-maristist racial reductionism, but yes absolutely and completely inaccurate too. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/06/1619-s06.html
Did you notice one of the slaves was listed as Mulatto?
Thank you for exposing this hypocrite!
You're doing the Lord's work, thank you. Now I wonder if any journalist.wktbnhavr the ovaries to bring this up. Also wouldn't be surprised if Cotton bad some relatives on the other side of the color line.
Vindictive and superficial ad-hominem using his ancestors? weak and pathetic argument at best. Dangerous at worst.
does it matter what his ancestors did or did not do ? are you really that vindictive and superficial?