Thursday, March 31, 2005
another snippet from the EB
no, i don't really do titles.
well, i read most of the entry on ABERDEEN. i think it was 3 pages total. but in the history ofAberdeen(founded in the 1100's by the way) there was this snippet. in the 17oo's boys were kidnapped and sent to america as slaves in the US. i thought they were indentured???
and for a snippet of little worth, the water was quite clean and only had 3 1/2 grams of solid matter in their water.
metric back then???
i am reading too many books at once. also am trying to finish the set of world's famous orations, so i can sell them on ebay.i am on Vol. II-Rome. and i read The gracchiI fragments by tiberius gracchus, grandson of scipio africanus major, who sounds like a democrat, so imagined his voice as Dean's.
snippet-
'The private soldiers fight and die to advance the wealth and luxory of the great, and they are called masters of the world without having a sod to call their own.'
________
'Is it not just what belongs to the people should be shared by the people? Is a man with no capacity for fighting more useful to his country than a soldier? is a citizen inferior to a slave? is an alien, or one who owns some of his country's soil, the best patriot?'
of course he did not live long.
no, i don't really do titles.
well, i read most of the entry on ABERDEEN. i think it was 3 pages total. but in the history ofAberdeen(founded in the 1100's by the way) there was this snippet. in the 17oo's boys were kidnapped and sent to america as slaves in the US. i thought they were indentured???
and for a snippet of little worth, the water was quite clean and only had 3 1/2 grams of solid matter in their water.
metric back then???
i am reading too many books at once. also am trying to finish the set of world's famous orations, so i can sell them on ebay.i am on Vol. II-Rome. and i read The gracchiI fragments by tiberius gracchus, grandson of scipio africanus major, who sounds like a democrat, so imagined his voice as Dean's.
snippet-
'The private soldiers fight and die to advance the wealth and luxory of the great, and they are called masters of the world without having a sod to call their own.'
________
'Is it not just what belongs to the people should be shared by the people? Is a man with no capacity for fighting more useful to his country than a soldier? is a citizen inferior to a slave? is an alien, or one who owns some of his country's soil, the best patriot?'
of course he did not live long.
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I'm not sure if this is correct for Aberdeen specifically, but "indentured servant" was a euphemism for many things.
In many cities and counties they simply rounded up the unwanted population and shipped them off to Virginia (then, a penal colony). The unwanted included street urchins, prostitutes, and other urban underclass; migrant laborers (then called gypsies or vagabonds); and peasants evicted from the land by the enclosures. The last group was particularly brutal in Scotland.
In later years, we Yankees called this process Shanghaiing. The British billed the victems for the honor and called them indentured servants.
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In many cities and counties they simply rounded up the unwanted population and shipped them off to Virginia (then, a penal colony). The unwanted included street urchins, prostitutes, and other urban underclass; migrant laborers (then called gypsies or vagabonds); and peasants evicted from the land by the enclosures. The last group was particularly brutal in Scotland.
In later years, we Yankees called this process Shanghaiing. The British billed the victems for the honor and called them indentured servants.
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