MDDM Ch. 62 Slavery

[David Morris]

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>
>Definitely some of the Native American tribes took slaves (defeated 
>enemies) before the Europeans came. Zhang's words are very wise.

I've just returned from a visit to Bastrop Texas, a toney suburb of Austin.  
Our (Jane & my) host is the president of the Bastrop Historical Museum, and 
he gave us our own very personal tour that Saturday morning before the doors 
were oficially open on the 4th of July.  One of the two rooms dedicated by 
trust to have at least 60% "Our Family" history content told the tale of a 
wife troubled by a dream while her husband was away from her bed.  He was in 
need of her in a most dire way.  He'd been scalped and lay under at tree, 
and she found him so.  But he lived for another sixty-some years, according 
to their text.   And she made him a custom cap of undescribed manufacture.  
Go figure.

All of this made us wonder what it meant to be "scalped."  If this patron 
lived many years after having been, many questions ensue.  Pictures of 
maggot hair replacement?  Artificially knitted or laced skin-substitutes?  
Big wound? Or a little nick?  They made no mention of anyone being staked 
with a honey-covered crotch over a nest of red fire-ants.  Still, I wonder 
about that lace cap...

All this back in the 60's.

David Morris




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