Zero , Northwest Florida: 09/04/2011

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Jan~
YOU HIGHJACKED MY BLOG!!!!

Gonna loadZZZ you ups on WITT'S SLAVE CABINZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

Thursday, March 11, 2004

Slaves Cabin #1 with old Tutwiler in background- October 16, 1935

Slaves Cabin #2- October 16, 1935
The old well is in here. That's where the servants fetched the water for Mrs. Garland to put out the fire the Yankees set.

Slaves Cabin #3- October 17, 1935
This is Witt's Garage.

Slaves Cabin #3

Slave Cabin #2- April 3, 1934

Saturday, November 29, 2003

Animalcar,

After reviewing your website, I am wondering why my almerr mater allows a revisionist psuedo-scholar and poverty pimp such as yourself to to set foot on our campus. Must be some carpet-bagging guilt transfer that we true Southerners do not share. I will contact the administration in an attempt to determine why you are here. Incidentally, what is your real name?

Hope to see you leaving real soon,

KR http://www.as.ua.edu/amstud/azvita.htm

Robert,
Shabbazz's presentation in Havana "Black Panther Kuwasi Balogun’s Journey to
Anarchism and Guerrilla Warfare: An Exploration of International Influences to
the U.S. from Spain and Cuba." Southwest Council of Latin American Studies,
March 1998, is a true distortion of what happened to the Black Panthers in Cuba.
Almost all Black Panther leaders who sought "asylum" in Cuba, including
Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton, left there at the first opportunity and
denounced the Castro regime as racist.
As early as 1969, Black Panther Raymond Johnson was denouncing that he and
other members of his party were "isolated and imprisoned" in Cuba. (Miami
Herald, June 26, 1969, page 17-D)
Black Panther Tony Bryant, who hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1969, voluntarily
returned to the U.S. in 1980 and wrote a book denouncing racism as practiced by
the Castro regime and the situation of dozens of African Americans who were
imprisoned in Cuba.
Milwaukee Black Panther Garland Jesus Grant, who hijacked a plane to Cuba in
January 1971, was jailed twice in Cuba and beaten by prison guards, who stabbed
him in the eye with a bayonet. He voluntarily returned to the U.S. in 1978. The
Washington Post, April 26, 1977, quoted Grant in Cuba as saying: "Im living
like a dog in Cuba." He said blacks are treated badly. "There are more racism
problems here than in the worst parts of Mississippi." He said going to jail in
the U.S. wouldn't bother him. "Just open my cell door, and I'll walk in," he
said. Grant pled guilty o a 15-year sentence in 1978.
Black Panther Richard Duwayne Witt, who hijacked a plane to Cuba on September
18, 1970, also returned eight years later to voluntarily serve his sentence is
the U.S.
African American Robert Williams, who in the early sixties operated "Radio
Free Dixie" out of Havana to incite blacks in the South, also returned to the
U.S. and testified before a U.S. Congressional committee denouncing racism in
Cuba.
African American Gregory Alexander Graves, a U.S. Army deserter who hijacked
a plane to Cuba in 1971, returned to the U.S. in June 1975 to face a 20-year
prison sentence rather than remain in Cuba.
Three other African Americans, Henry Jackson, Jr., Melvin Cale, and Louis
Moore, who hijacked a Southern Airways jet in 1972, also voluntarily returned
to the U.S. in 1980 to face prison sentences.
The only black radical hijacker who remains in Cuba is Michael Finney, who
murdered a New Mexico state trooper in 1971. He faces a death penalty upon his
return.
Check out my website on hijackings to Cuba at
http://www.Rose-Hulman.Edu/~delacova/hijacking.htm
Here is a list of Fugitives In Cuba Wanted by the FBI
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_226-250/doc0226.htm
Maybe next time the Bush Administration allows another shipment of food to be
sold to the Cuban Government, they should ask for some of the fugitive cop
killers in return.
Tony

Quoting robert register :

> w:
> If you ever really want to lose weight, click on the following and it will
> make you so sick to your stomach you'll will either lose your appetite or
> vomit up whatever you may have in your belly.(while you read about Amilcar's
> great accomplishments, remember who paid for all this bullshit- the talk
> about Black Panthers in Cuba presented in Havana is the best as well as the
> articles printed in that Hip Hop Chronicle of Death and Disease known as The
> Source)
> http://www.as.ua.edu/amstud/azvita.htm
>
>

> saludos,
>

> roberto

http://www.Rose-Hulman.Edu/~delacova/hijacking.htm

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_226-250/doc0226.htm

Friday, November 28, 2003

Cynthia:

If I live another five months, I will also be 54. Antonio De La Cova who is my mentor on the Cuba stuff is 53. Greg Spies who has been my research partner since '96, is 54. All of us are about the same age.Greg owns the oldest privately owned archaeological research organization in Alabama. We were all born to be "stars of stage, screen and radio."

The only mission I'm on is to understand the forces which have shaped ME!!!! If I can help anyone else get a better understanding of the truth, then great. The last time I was in the classroom was before '95 when I was still a Biology instructor in the public schools and community colleges. When I came to Bama in '68, I discovered the cabins and have studied them since. If you stand where George Wallace stood in the "school house door" and look over your left shoulder, you can see the back wall of Slaves Cabin #4. It is definitely "hush hush" and the University wishes those four buildings would go away along with me.

The Witts tell me they can do anything they want with the cabins and I guess they can cause nobody else seems to care about them. Slaves Cabin # 1 was built as a duplex. Pretty sure it's being used to store stuff like Christmas decorations now. It has a floor and you could live in it. Slaves Cabin #2 to the east is a garden shed. It was originally a creamery and has a stone lined well underneath the present floor. Slaves Cabin #3 was originally a kitchen but now it serves as the Witt's garage. Slaves Cabin #4 was also built as a duplex but in has no interior walls and has no floor and is in pretty sad shape. The walls and roof are fine though.

The best way to see them is to talk to Mrs. Witt's maids. Pretty sure it's still Dot and maybe Peggy. Don't know cause we just changed Presidents. All you have to do is knock on the back door of the second floor of the mansion and they'll give you the keys.

It is a sho' nuff "hush hush" thang. These left wing kooks at the university would probably burn them down if people started paying attention to them. Some of the most wonderful research on slavery has been accomplished at this university and it is totally ignored. The head of the African-American studies program is so far out he makes me want to puke. His damn wife is a bigger knucklehead than he is. My goal in life is to see all such folks leave the State of Alabama and if I have my way they will. Their names are Mr. and Mrs. Amilcar Shabazz. I wonder where he got that name from.

Let me hear from you.

saludos,

roberto

>From: CRosers@aol.com
>To: robertoreg@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Anne Witt Etc.
>Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:08:31 EST
>
>Robert,
>You sound as if you are on a mission. :-)
>Such as I am.
>
>I hadn't looked into the topic of slave life on a university campus though my
>Public History class project is documenting the AA history of University of
>West Georgia and the campus is located on what was a plantation. There was some
>mention of slavery association but not much. With the amount of time we had
>to complete our project we did not delve into that. However it is a subject
>worth investigating further.
>
>Are you a student? What has brought you to all this? What does Mrs. Witt plan
>to do with the cabins? What condition are they in? Are they being used? I
>would love to see them. Does she allow this? Is this a "hush-hush" thing that is
>coming out of the closet?
>
>Thanks for visiting our website. There is so much to be done and not nearly
>enough hours in the day. I am an undergraduate student (at age 54) and I feel
>so overwhelmed at times I just want to give up. But then I hear of someone like
>you out there who is as fascinated with our slavery history as I am and I get
>rejuvenated. Our people run scared and get pissed off with me when I start
>talking about the subject. I am finding it to be so interesting. I keep finding
>out something new to take me on another tangent.
>
>The excavation is a mock one for educational purpose. The UWG has done
>extensive digs on Sapelo Island, 1992-2001 and the collection is housed at the
>Waring lab on campus. I will be volunteering weekly to help catalog and computerize
>the collection. The mock dig will be my first learning experience with
>anything like this. After learning how to do it I will have a section at the museum
>planned off to show school children and adults how it is done. Have you done
>any digs yourself?
>
>C

Robert Register It's been over 49 yrs. since the Civil War Centennial edition of the Corolla. Bet we won't see no artwork like this next April (Michelle might find it OFFENSIVE)

TELL IT ALL,BROTHER! TELL IT ALL!

Friday night I agreed to write an article about Tuscaloosa's slave cabins & dwellings. I guarantee you I'll show THE SLAVES more respect than the '66 Corolla did.

My boss' Daddy's ad in the '47 Corolla along with Joe Sewell's.

First thing my Daddy told me when I said I wanted to come to school in Tuscaloosa,"All I know about Tuscaloosa is when I was there you had to drive 20 miles just to get a brew."

THE RAMMER JAMMER located on the corner of Bryant Drive & Wallace Wade Avenue.

Now ya know where Siegleman got started: SGA Arts & Sciences Senator '66.

ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!

Robert Register OUR CONDOLENCES, URBAN CRIER.
RGDMFT ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDrJ5Z2rKw

This gal favors one of my old neighbors.

Chris D. Forshee Interesting. I never knew that anyone besides the frat boys got dressed up to go to a ballgame.

HOW 'BOUT DAT CRIMSON TIDE!

I'm guessing the '66 Auburn game.

William Alford boy, he was fresh faced, right off the farm, wasn't he? but i can see the intensity in those eyes. wish he'd quit smoking back then.

Robert Register I bet you remember where this picture was taken.

Robert Register Music From '72 Will Get You In The Mood To Enjoy The Next Few Images.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYuLsudaJQ&feature=related

THE ORIGINAL PROTEST MOVEMENT @ U of A.
Rose wanted to tear it down & when he couldn't, he got his boy Matthews to get the FBI to burn Dressler, collected the $140,000 in insurance money & built that ugly Ferguson Center on top of Dressler's FBI ashes. That ugly mess was meant to be on top of Woods Hall and the only thing that stopped it was THE LITTLE BO' PROTEST.

Robert Register One of coolest things that happened Friday night was seeing how Michael Palmer lifted the pennant off of one of Lee's postcards & used it to headline an article.

Robert Register Had a rockin' GOOD night with the blues crew from THE ALABAMA BLUES
PROJECT. They had their main fund raiser tonight @ THE JEMISON MANSION
& the music, the art, the food, the drink & THE LADIES were
SUPERB. Ran into MICHAEL PALMER & he gave me some copies of the new
issue of his SOUTHERN TIMES of GREATER TUSCALOOSA MAG...AZINE which
includes the illustration he did with Lee's postcards. KEWL!

Robert Register Here's the part of Palmer's article where he credits Lee Pake, my boss for well over 11 yrs. & a great friend to me & my family.

Robert Register HERE'S ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST!
John Earl CELEBRATING REAGAN'S
TUESDAY, NOV. 4, 1980 VICTORY in his election night get-up photographed
by David York inside THE CHUKKER published in the Wednesday, Nov. 5,
1980 edition of THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS.

Robert Register I bet Brian H. almost had a heart attack in anticipation of the feast promised by this sign on the old Krystal on The Strip. You can see in the background that the BP station was still a service station when this photo was published in the T News on Jan. 30, 1981. I bet very few of us have any late night Krystal memori...es to share because we were all to stoned to recollect.

Robert Register If you ever wanted a reason to eliminate local, county, state and
federal government agencies, look at this schedule of fines from the
1967 business reply mail envelope in which you sent your fines to
THE
TUSCALOOSA MUNICIPAL COURT. These fines were just punishment but
...compare them to the greed of the current regimes and you see why we want
to eliminate every CITY YARD, COUNTY YARD, STATE YARD & FEDERAL
YARD in this country, open all government services up to open bid
contracts on the Internet & FIRE ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES!

At the TREASURE SHIP on Grand Lagoon in Sept. '09 alfred:

Hip, Hip, Hooray! Congratulations, buddy!

That's very near Sherman Concrete. K.C. "Kid" Kelley, a good friend of mine, owns the junk yard and appliance shop just past the city limit. The subdivision is Willow Lane( my boss, Lee Pake, owns two houses in that subdivision) but it seems to me that Manly's place might be on Kid's property. I'll be working near there tomorrow and I'll check in with Kid.

I really need to work this weekend but we could meet on Saturday or Sunday early in the morning or after 3:30. I knock off early on the weekends so I can go fishing.

A good place to meet would be at our office, Pake Realty. We are located at 2609 University Blvd. It's on the south side of the street just past the bridge that carries traffic coming from Northport.

My office number is 759-1906 but I'm always in the field. I'll be in the office after 5:15 tomorrow. My home number is 759-9280.

The wheels of progress are rolling, brother. Keep up the good work.

best,

rr

>From:
>Reply-To: abrophy@law.ua.edu
>To: "robert register"
>Subject: RE: your research on slave quarters at UA?
>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:50:24 -0600
>
>Yes, it would be great, indeed! I bet that's possible.
>Here's some other good news--went to the Tuscsaloosa
>Courthouse after class this morning and found where Manly's 160
>acre plantation was. It's off of Moody Swamp Road (which is the
>extension of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.)--just over the line
>from Tuscaloosa City. You up for a field trip? From the current
>tax map, it doesn't look like it's developed right now, though there
>appears to be a housing development near it.
>
>Best, Alfred

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Robert,

The drawings are on the library of congress website:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html

Then search for University of Alabama.

I love the historic buildings website--didn't realize that the slave
cabin drawings were on there, or that they even existed until you
told me.

Best, Alfred
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Alfred:

I live in Northport and work for Pake Realty on University Boulevard. I caught the fish in a farm pond just west of the new bridge on the west side of town.

The Board of Trustees never owned many slaves. I would guess four or five at a time and they were a pain in the ass because of all the holidays. As soon as school let out, all the professors started pushing the steward around in order to get his slaves to work on their pet projects plus the steward wanted them to work on his pet projects.

I have identified four categories of slaves associated with the University:

1) Slaves that the students brought from home. Check out the biography of Oran Milo Roberts in Special Collections. Roberts brought his slave Prince to Tuscaloosa in 1833 when he entered the University and hired him out in town to pay college expenses. Roberts also says that the straw that broke the camel's back for Dearing occurred when students kidnapped one of his slave girls and brought her to campus.[ Dearing built the University Club and the big house across from the post office off of 21st Avenue]. Students attacked Dearing when he came looking for his girl. Students' slaves weren't allowed on campus but students lodged them in town and hired them out for a profit.

2) Slaves owned by faculty and the President. These servants were often hired by the University. Barnard's slave was his lab assistant. Manly mentions that Barnard's Morgan pimped Barnard's Luna to the students "who they use in great numbers nightly." Luna may be Barnard's servant girl who was so brutally raped by the student at Ole Miss.

3) Slaves owned by Tuscaloosa citizens and hired out the the University. This was the most common form of slavery and I'm not sure how many records exist. The wild thing was Garland impounding all the slaves in Tuscaloosa during the war to build earthworks over by the present-day police station. He caught holy hell from Tuscaloosa and the Governor forced him to stop.

4) Slaves owned by the Board of Trustees.

Check out the local papers for the first week of January each year. There really wasn't what you would consider a slave market here but January 1 was called "Hiring Day" and the sheriff would have estate sales on the courthouse steps and slaves would be sold the first week in January. Lots of ads for this in Tuscaloosa papers.

Random thoughts...

Slave clothing included Cottonade coats & pants, flannel coats,summer vests, summer hats, winter coats, shoes, slippers

Board for a slave $3 month- board for a horse 4 to 5 dollars per month

Carpenters hired at $2 per day. William, owned by H.S. Pratt, was so skilled at building desks and bookcases that he demanded more and had to be paid under the table because his rate was so high.

Dr. Rueben Searcy, whose doctor's office was located in the present day Alabama Grill on Greensboro Avenue, charged the Board of Trustees for 33 office visits for Moses over a period of 3 months in 1857.

Moses (a.k.a. "Preach") was bad to drink and fight. They threatened to sell him so he got religion. From a Mobile Tribune article 1859. "I say, Preach, what are you going to do when the devil gets you?"

"Wait on the students," Preach replied.

1844: Trustees curtailed use of slaves during vacation by the Steward. Top priority holiday work:receiving coal, cleaning, whitewashing

Underground Railroad!!!! In 1852, Professor Scherb found runaways sleeping in Room 18 of Franklin Hall west of the present day Gorgas Library.

Sam, owned by the Board, beat Tom who had been hired from Alex Glascock. Glascock's house on 21st avenue has just been renovated. Gatozzi Valuations is located there now. Glascock shows up in Sellers' History of the First Methodist Church of Tuscaloosa.

Garland started out with 3 but soon had 60. His women refused to be sold to the owner's of their husbands so Garland had to buy their husbands.

Student abuse:

1837: Henry Elmore chastised servant and then called before faculty. Elmore signed an apology.

1842: Student admonished " for chasing a Negro through campus during study hours."

1843: 4 students dragged a servant out of a professor's yard and abused and injured him for sport.

Foster and two students beat the President's negro so badly that he required surgery.

I have where Smith used Supreme Court lawyers to overcome his indefinite suspension for abusing servants.

1845: Ben Saffold got a Presidential admonition after stabbing Moses in the arm with a table fork.

1846: A.P. Robinson hit Moses with a crutch for not bringing food to his room. The student had to pay $1.50 per day for a substitute while Moses recovered. University students could not send servants on errands, get food,etc, for them even when ill.

1845: Milton Saffold beat Sam for insolence when Sam refused to scald a bedstead. This was Milton's third offense and "he must leave Tuscaloosa in the stage which departs for Selma this evening." This kid probably had a long history of abusing servants before he arrived in Tuscaloosa.

June 1850: 6 students and Barnard's Morgan stole Moses's chickens.

Check out John Massey, Reminiscences(Nashville, Methodist Episcopal Church,South, 1916)

Check out Letters of Landon Garland

In Richard Thigpen's January,' 81 article in The Alabama Review,"The Four Public Buildings of The University of Alabama to Survive the Civil War", he never mentions the four slave cabins. Thigpen served as an interim President of the University.

quote from Manly, "there is no set of men in Alabama that I would sooner be a slave ["slave" is underlined] to ( if I must be a slave) [this parenthetical phrase is also underlined] than the Trustees."

Manly had two slaves named Lydia. This will confuse you. Also there's a good chance that some of Manly's slaves knew Denmark Vesey.

The Junior Class students in Washington Hall collected $75 to hire Barnard's slave so they could have experiments. I have a note "Could this be Johnson?" I have another card which says Johnson, owned by Barnard, was discharged when Sam was hired.

Levi, a little negro boy, (page 174 of Manly's diary) January 10, 1840 Jan. 10 received from Father in Law Rudulph of Lowndes County, Ala. Born April 5, 1825 "This boy is intended as a gift and is to be my property. My father in law purchasing his [family] came under some obligation to liberate each of them at the age of 25 years provided the laws of country should admit emancipation. After liberating the mother in 1821, she got into trouble and great need and came back to her master to offer herself as his slave for life, since which time Levi was born."

Larrey, given to Manly by his father, served as Manly's body servant.

Manly, Taxed for a riding chair [could this be a sedan chair?] Manly quote,"I have 8 negroes over 10 years of age and 8 negroes under 10; but these are not considered taxable under the charter of the university."

Serena, born of Lydia #2 b. October 31, 1846 ; died of cholera May 27, 1849

$150 allowed by Board of Trustees for hiring a servant. "suitable servants could not be got for less than $200" Professor Pratt's Scipio and Peter hired for $200 each. "If the board of trustees do not pay the additional $100, the Faculty are to do it out of the money deposited for contingencies by the students, and subject to our control" [interesting use of student activity fees]

June 28, 1841[ Source: New Building Fund- Money Paid Out] Jim owned by J.A. Prattt hired for 10 days at 70 cents per day. May 22, 1841 paid Ms. Pratt $140 for hire of carpenters William and Jim.

Boysey(proper name William) November 22, 1843 Mary's son died of whooping cough at daylight 7 years old [from Manly's recipe book-description of the case and prescription. Funeral was in the President's Mansion and he was buried by the present day Biology building on the same afternoon]

Cory- Garland's carriage driver who drove Mrs. Garland and the girls to the edge of the woods when the University burned.

Drish's colored man June 9, 1841 [New Building Fund] "paid Wm. Drish (colored man) for various jobs of brick work- such as setting iron chimney backs, laying hearths, repairing arches, and filling up scaffold holes under colonnade before plastering. Cash $8.50

Jack, died May 5, 1843- died of pneumonia before 2 o'clock in the afternoon -Manly,"He was an African, a member of the Methodist church- honest and faithful- did as much and as well as he knew how."

First Sharecropping: 28 Manly slaves on the Tuscaloosa plantation sign a contract on June 20, 1865, for the production of 10 acres of corn each.

The Arthur negroes sold students peanuts, candy and tobacco. Tuscaloosa slaves also sold possum dinners door to door in the dormitories.

Frederick Thomas, English professor, drunk on a steamboat coming up from Mobile. On brandy and opium, he grabbed a slave girl and took her to his cabin. Dismissed from the university.

Dr. Stafford's Archie " sold mean whiskey to students" and rented Dr. Stafford's carriage and horses to students for the night.

Well Alfred, that's enought info for tonight. Hope you enjoy it.

Best,

rr

>From:
>Reply-To: abrophy@law.ua.edu
>To: "robert register"
>Subject: RE: your research on slave quarters at UA?
>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 19:34:54 -0600
>
>Sorry I didn't write a longer message this morning; I was writing
>before hearing off to class--very much looking forward to hearing
>about this all. Manly's diaries are pretty interesting, huh? It's
>hard to figure out exactly how many slaves were working at UA
>at any one time--there're some references to them in the trustee
>minutes and in Manly's diaries, but it's hard to get a good picture
>of them, it seems.
>Nice picture of the catfish.
>Do you live around Tuscaloosa?
>Best, Alfred

Alfred:

I am not very organized but I gotta start somewhere....

Go to Gorgas and get Louis Friedman Herzburg's Negro Slavery in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1818- 1865 (1955) [T 378 H447n1955]. It's not checked out and it's one of the only works to follow up on Sellers.

If you wanna know about slave archaeology (there's a well below the floor of Slave's Cabin #2 [the gardening tool house] and test pits outside all windows and doors of all four cabins should produce results) get Barbara Heath's Hidden Lives:the archaeology of slave life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest (E 332.74 .H43 1999)

Get a copy of Mellown's "The President's Mansion at The University of Alabama"(Alabama Review, July ' 82) Robert cites a letter in the Governor Arthur P. Bagby Papers, Alabama State Department of Archives and History, Montgomery. This letter (Dr.Basil Manly to Gov. Arthur P. Bagby, March 11, 1840) Quoting Mellown," Manly gave complete instructions for the interior and exterior details of the buildings in his letter to the governor." If you get this letter, please make me a copy.

Mellown states that only #1 and #4 served as slave quarters but I argue that slaves lived in all four.

Ironies concerning the 4 slave cabins:

The University does not claim that these four antebellum buildings survived the burning of the University by the Yankees. The water to put out the fire inside the Mansion came from #2. The University considers the four buildings to be dependencies of the Mansion so instead of 8 buildings surviving the fire, visitors are always told that 4 buildings(The Mansion, the Observatory, The Round House, and the Gorgas House) survived.

When the parking lots are clear, you can stand where Wallace stood in front of Foster, look over your left shoulder and see the east wall of Slave Cabin #4 ( Peggy and Dot were Sorensen's maids and I think Dot is still there. They have the keys to the 4 buildings)

Manly did not identify the four buildings on his survey map of the University(see Illustrated History of U. of A.) and they are, as far as I can tell, the only buildings on campus not identified on present day University campus maps.

You can do some pretty good population studies from the information available. Manly slaves multiplied quickly. Let me know if find out where Manly's Tuscaloosa plantation was located. I would think that it would be on the river in the direction of Moundville.

Check out the Faculty minutes because slaves are mentioned frequently because students were disciplined for attacking them. I'm pretty sure that the only times that students were disciplined was when their attack disturbed the peace or injured the slave to point where medical treatment was needed. I believe you could look into the lives of the worst offenders and find that they had tormented their own family's servants.

Of course slaves worked Marr's Field but the Board of Trustees purchased their first slave in 1828. This slave,Ben, worked with the architect but he was sold after work was completed.

Pretty sure you'll find that Board preferred to hire slaves from town rather than owning them, however, in 1860, Bama decided to go whole hog and really get into the slave trade when they sent George Benaugh to Lynchburg with $7000 to buy slaves ( letter- Benaugh to Henry Snow August 21, 1860)

More later. Gotta go pick my son up at Scouts.

best,

rr

>From:
>Reply-To: abrophy@law.ua.edu
>To: "robert register"
>Subject: RE: your research on slave quarters at UA?
>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:49:58 -0600
>
>Thanks so much--looking forward to seeing it.
>
>Best, Alfred
>
>On 9 Mar 2004, at 15:44, robert register wrote:
>
>Hey Great!
>Not much on the blog but that will change soon. I have identified
>many slaves who worked on campus and I have investigated the
>Barnard affair at Ole Miss.I'll put all this together for you.
>This story of slavery at the university is a common theme at
>U.Va., UNC,College of S.C., UGA and Ole Miss.
>The Gorgas Library has a great book on slave cabin archaeology
>at one of Jefferson's plantations.
>
>Manly's group of slaves increased to the point where he had to
>build a plantation in order to work all of them.
>Also the Garland slaves may have accompanied Garland to
>Vanderbilt after the war.
> More later.
> rr
>
>
> >From:
> >Reply-To: abrophy@law.ua.edu
> >To: robertoreg@hotmail.com
> >Subject: your research on slave quarters at UA?
> >Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:00:11 -0600
> >
> >Dear Mr. Register,
> >
> >Ben Windham of the Tuscaloosa News tells me that you've done
> >some important work on slave quarters on the UA campus. I'd
>be
> >most appreciative if you would point me to the place on your
>blog
> >where you discuss your work--or if you have a paper to share,
>I'd
> >appreciate that as well.
> >
> >I'm giving a talk in a couple of weeks on slavery at the UA--
>based
> >largely on trustee minutes and Manly's diary, but also on Sellers
> >and A. James Fuller's biography of Manly and a couple of other
> >secondary sources. I'd like to add something on slave quarters.
> >
> >Best wishes, Alfred
> >
> >
> >Alfred L. Brophy, Professor of Law
> >University of Alabama
> >101 Bryant Drive East
> >Box 870382
> >Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0382
> >Facsimile: 205.348.5829
>abrophy@law.ua.edu
>
>
>Alfred L. Brophy, Professor of Law
>University of Alabama
>101 Bryant Drive East
>Box 870382
>Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0382
>Facsimile: 205.348.5829
>Voice: 205.348.0841 abrophy@law.ua.edu

AIN'T LOVE GRAND!!!!

BIG FISH II
MY 20 POUND FLATHEAD YELLOW CAT
CAUGHT MARCH 8 AT LAKE LEE

Sunday, March 07, 2004

MR. JACK WINGATE

Seminole Ramlin's

February 22, 2004

We see today young men and young ladies makin big bucks in the real estate bizniss. This is great, however, one must look at the first real estate man in our area. Mr. John Forbes of Cuba had a land grant from the King of Spain for the entire shoreline from Destin to the mouth of the Appalachicola River. He then bought 1.2 acres of land from the natives for 5 cents per acre reaching from St. Vincent Island to near the town of Quincy, Fla. west of the Ocklochnee River. When Mr. Forbes died it took 100 years of Court proceedings which took away his Spanish land grant and left his family members deeply in debt. One must be careful because a lawsuit lasting 100 years will get rite expensive.
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capn:
Ya know you're catching fish when the owners of the lake show their concern. No problem with any of the 4 pound channel catfish. No problem with the two and three quarter pound Crappie; in fact, catch all the crappie out of the whole lake but catch a 5 pound bass and a four and three quarter pound bass one weekend and then come out and catch a 4 pound bass the next weekend- suddenly ya got problems. No problem- it's all politics. Time to start hiding the bass I catch.

Found out today that my Grandfather Register's Daddy's oldest brother, William Duncan Register, Pvt. Co. D. 1st AL, TN, MS Infantry(died July 13, 1862) is buried in downtown Chicago along with 6000 other barefooted Rebel Sons of Bitches. Seeing the monument and knowing that nothing marked their 6000 graves until 30 years after their death is not a comforting thought. Not only that, the neglect and torture they endured has been effectively suppressed by the Yankees.Check out what happens when you fight and die for your country and your country loses the War. http://www.graveyards.com/oakwoods/confederate.html

Hope ya'll enjoyed the weekend.
Best,
rrhttp://www.graveyards.com/oakwoods/confederate.html

Zero , Northwest Florida

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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Saturday, November 29, 2003

Friday, November 28, 2003

Robert Register It's been over 49 yrs. since the Civil War Centennial edition of the Corolla. Bet we won't see no artwork like this next April (Michelle might find it OFFENSIVE)

Robert Register OUR CONDOLENCES, URBAN CRIER.
RGDMFT ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDrJ5Z2rKw

Robert Register I bet you remember where this picture was taken.

Robert Register Music From '72 Will Get You In The Mood To Enjoy The Next Few Images.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYuLsudaJQ&feature=related

Robert Register One of coolest things that happened Friday night was seeing how Michael Palmer lifted the pennant off of one of Lee's postcards & used it to headline an article.

Robert Register Here's the part of Palmer's article where he credits Lee Pake, my boss for well over 11 yrs. & a great friend to me & my family.

Robert Register HERE'S ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST!
John Earl CELEBRATING REAGAN'S
TUESDAY, NOV. 4, 1980 VICTORY in his election night get-up photographed
by David York inside THE CHUKKER published in the Wednesday, Nov. 5,
1980 edition of THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Thursday, March 11, 2004

Saturday, November 29, 2003

Friday, November 28, 2003

Robert Register It's been over 49 yrs. since the Civil War Centennial edition of the Corolla. Bet we won't see no artwork like this next April (Michelle might find it OFFENSIVE)

Robert Register OUR CONDOLENCES, URBAN CRIER.RGDMFT ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDrJ5Z2rKw

Robert Register I bet you remember where this picture was taken.

Robert Register Music From '72 Will Get You In The Mood To Enjoy The Next Few Images.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYuLsudaJQ&feature=related

Robert Register One of coolest things that happened Friday night was seeing how Michael Palmer lifted the pennant off of one of Lee's postcards & used it to headline an article.

Robert Register Here's the part of Palmer's article where he credits Lee Pake, my boss for well over 11 yrs. & a great friend to me & my family.

Robert Register HERE'S ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST!John Earl CELEBRATING REAGAN'STUESDAY, NOV. 4, 1980 VICTORY in his election night get-up photographedby David York inside THE CHUKKER published in the Wednesday, Nov. 5,1980 edition of THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS.

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Sunday, March 07, 2004

About Me

Previous Posts

Archives

About Me

Previous Posts

Archives

Robert Register OUR CONDOLENCES, URBAN CRIER.
RGDMFT ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDrJ5Z2rKw

Robert Register Music From '72 Will Get You In The Mood To Enjoy The Next Few Images.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYuLsudaJQ&feature=related

Robert Register HERE'S ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST!
John Earl CELEBRATING REAGAN'S
TUESDAY, NOV. 4, 1980 VICTORY in his election night get-up photographed
by David York inside THE CHUKKER published in the Wednesday, Nov. 5,
1980 edition of THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS.