School is going well, as is A's next big thing - getting high speed internet installed at grandmothers.
We need it for school. Need it quite badly.
I have a paper due on Wednesday on a book called Stolen Childhood. It was not the best book I have read about slavery. I feel that it didn't do a very good job on comparing and contrasting the differences in the way that people lived in the 19th century. I don't know what I was looking for in this book, but I think the author tried to tell too much in a too big of time. Was the life of a slave child the same on the plantations of Louisiana as the life in the rice fields of South Carolina? In 1800 compared to just after the Civil War? How were the poor white farmers of this time living? Does that matter? My instructor said no, but I think that it may. If they were more similar then not, then did the rich use the whites to strengthen the institution of slavery. "Look here son, you may have it bad, but at least you are not a slave". When in truth most of the poor white farmers where as much tied to the land as the black families. There should of been more research done for this book and it could of told a better story of the differences between the poor whites and the slaves. And it could of stayed on it's topic of the plight of slave youths.
I am in Detroit. I was supposed to go home this morning but couldn't get out of Detroit.
I want to go home, but it looks as if I won't be home until tonight.
What fun.
Question for the day:
Who the hell are 'those people' and why does every one talk about them? Do these people not have names?
I see a nap in my future. Actually I will be seeing the insides of my eyes.
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