Ritterton here and elsewhere!

LOOK WHAT WE DID #HATM

Hope it goes well for him. 🙏

“I may be a whore but I’m no traitor.”
This show has some great lines. #HATM

Ok, so, that first episode took a bit to get through. The second was much more powerful. We will watch the rest of #TheGrayHouse over the next week. Thanks for making it happen @herberthistory.bsky.social

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"We are making our own rules now."

HMHMH.

Why, oh, why does this sound so familiar?

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Madness.

That seems so very fitting to so many historical events.

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I spend a LOT of time reading wills & chancery court cases in 18th and 19th century Virginia. It was HIGHLY common for men to leave property to his wife only until her death or until she remarried. In either case, she had no control. Or worse, she only got the widow's portion: one third. #HATM

Will say the wonderful bread crumbs of history being left to us in this, is really enjoyable.

Duke of Orleans reference, and it was likely to have happened.

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www.frenchempire.net/biographies/...

I should mention that Virginia Tech had a famed Civil War historian, James Robertson, who was on JFK's 100 year celebration committee. I visited with him in his home once to get an autographed book for my Dad. He's passed now, but was a well loved figure here, almost as much as Frank Beamer.

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So apparently, there is an Epstein element to this show as well.

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This set up wasn’t uncommon in the American colonies & then the early republic. A widow could inherit for her use but only until her death when “property” passed on to the true heir. #HATM

Further, Dr. Elizabeth Varon writes that the Van Lew women emancipated their enslaved people, but not formally on paper due to the hurdles created by John Van Lew's will. She theorizes that he was afraid they'd emancipate them. Legally, they weren't allowed, so they did it quietly. #HATM

Albert Pike (1809–1891) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas Albert Pike was a lawyer who played a major role in the development of the early courts of Arkansas and played an active role in the state’s politics ...

I had to go look up his history - my run in with him was at the DC Masonic Temple.

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encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/albe...

History in a Nutshell | Battle of Fort Sumter Anniversary April 12 marks the anniversary of the start of the American Civil War in 1861.

Fort Sumter was a deceptively bloodless start to an exceptionally bloody war. The only casualty was a horse. #HATM www.pbs.org/video/battle...

See, I thought the same, but Pike is not in Richmond - but rather in Arkansas.

Plus, I would argue that Albert Pike was much more sophisticated with his oratory.

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Statue of Sherman Led By Victory in Grand Army Square in Manhattan.

This guy. #HATM

Perhaps drawing on his studies in navigation and seamanship at the New York African Free School, Garnet made two sea voyages to Cuba in 1828. After another sea voyage in 1829, he returned to learn that his family had separated in the hopes of escaping slave catchers. Enraged and worried, Garnet wandered up and down Broadway with a knife. Eventually friends were able to locate him and spirit him off the Long Island to hide. Garnet is perhaps most famous for his radical speech of 1843, "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America." In this speech, Garnet breaks with tradition. Instead of hoping to convince free people (primarily free white people, of course) of the evils of slavery, Garnet speaks directly to those enslaved, urging them to rebel against their masters. Frederick Douglass, who was still committed to abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's approach of moral suasion, spoke out against the speech, while James McCune Smith expressed admiration for it.

Garnet’s speech is giving me Frederick Douglas vibes but apparently they were opposed in views & tactics at 1st. #HATM www.nyhistory.org/web/africanf...

Institute for Colored Youth - Wikipedia

The emphasis on education in the Black community is very real.

The first HBCU was founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia (now Cheney University). Founded with a Quaker bequest, the faculty were all Black from the start. #HATM

Surely, such things must only have happened in the ancient times of a bygone age where civilized society was not as modern, nor as advanced as ours of today.

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All done in broad daylight and in disbelief of civilized society, Ma'am, must be completely unparalleled before or since?

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OH HOW FLIPPING COOL IS THIS!

Thanks for pointing it out @fabugramma.bsky.social

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That deserves all the derision.

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OH REALLY!

Wow.

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Very interesting the coincidences of history.

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Laurette is going to be a challenge to this family. She is just so DIXIE...

Wait, wait, we have had two weeks of such people.

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Well, apparently, there is another side to Southern hospitality, Senator.

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When I was at training school in Biloxi, MS for USAF...I took my pass and did a history trip to the Jefferson Davis house...

The bus driver was an elderly black man, I explained I was going to the Davis house, Beauvoir.

"Son, that's the President's house."

Still makes me angry 40 yrs later

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So, regarding Jefferson Davis..

Two stories...

First, Washington State has a rather unusual relationship with the Confederacy's only 'president.'

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1/2

Senator Davis and his wife, Varina.

SIGH...

So it begins.

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Van Lew was educated at a Quaker school in Philadelphia. When it came to slavery and general human rights, the Quakers rocked.

The only Presbyterians to oppose slavery outright were also largely in Pennsylvania - Scottish Covenant background, thus natural dissenters. #hatm