{"id":465,"date":"2017-09-17T02:09:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/?p=465"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:49:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:49:32","slug":"but-not-her-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/2017\/09\/17\/but-not-her-child\/","title":{"rendered":"But Not Her Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not a radical person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never really have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I never thought much about slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it seems odd that what brought me to where I am now was a curiosity about my grandparents, two white people born long after slavery&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading these words from a Will:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nThirdly to his daughter Francis Redgell one negro women Named Bede but not her child which she is pregnant with which is previously disposed of to his son Hansel Beckwith.\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n<cite>\u201cBeckwith, Henry Of Marion District, Will Typescript (Mss Will: Book 1, Page 141; Estate Packet: Roll 44) (2 Frames). Date: 5\/28\/1829.\u201d <em>South Carolina Will Transcripts (Microcopy No 9) (S108093)<\/em>, Accessed 17 Sept. 2017.<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Please stop expecting me to entertain the the benevolent master trope or any other kinder, gentler telling of chattel slavery.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a radical person. I never really have been. And I never thought much about slavery. And it seems odd that what brought me to where I am now was a curiosity about my grandparents, two white people born long after slavery&#8217;s end. But here I am. Reading these words from a Will: Thirdly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julm.net\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}