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Lynda wrote:
> No, I'm not terribly interested in these "stories."  Everyone who has or 
>
> Do folks ever stop to think just how many slaves there would have to be "in 
> the South" and just how many Cherokee there would have to be, none of which 
> would have had time to work btw, inorder to produce these literally MILLIONS 
> of folks who can all trace their roots back to either a Cherokee princess, 
> and yes, it is always a Cherokee princess, which btw way is an Indian term 
> for "hang around the fort" Indian (whore) or to a Southern Plantation.
>
> Does anyone ever do the math on how few *big* plantations there were?
>
> Please note it is never a Northern factory owner or Northern plantation 
> (yes, they had them too) OR, heaven forbid, some sharecropper who had one 
> slave. Oh no, that just wouldn't do!
>
> Lynda

Thank you for that, Lynda.
Living 15 miles from New Echota, and on land that the Cherokee 
considered good hunting ground, a lot of folks around here claim 
Cherokee blood.  Probably, there really is a fair portion of Cherokee in 
these parts, but I know what you are saying and it does get old.

I think you are right about the big plantations, too.
There certainly weren't that many in northern GA because the 
aforementioned Cherokee were here until the 1830's, and even after that, 
there wouldn't have been many big farms as the piedmont is so different 
than the coastal plains.


I think a LOT of dark complected people would be very surprised to learn 
of their ancestry.

Bev



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