I just read your return address. You grew up on Uncle Tom's Cabin as realitu in the entire south. One Wyly had a plantation near DeKalb. His grandad Col. Ben Cleveland gave all his slaves freedom before he died. Toby was educated enough t o become a Baptist minister before he was freed.He owned land in S.C. and Georgia. Since he was a blacksmith and Gunsmith he was probably at King's Mountain. We know who a few free and slave blacks were there. but not all. There were integrated churches in Georgia Mountains and Arkansas before 1850. The Plantation above had a brick cottage for each family, a garden spot, Sundays off, and Black Husbands and wives were expected to raise their own children, unlike today. On the other side of the family, when some of Grandad Carey's family returned to Arkansas for a first visit in 50 years, a Black childhood froend of theirs walked several miles to see them in themountains when he heard they were. The Yellow Rose of Texas was a former slave who was Gen. Sam Houston's spy in Santa Anna's camp. We memorized the song about her in the 1936 Texas Centenial, written and first sang by educated black Texas cowboys a century earlier. Has it occurred to our strong Northern Unions that NAFDA has forced some of their jobs south, then overseas to slave labor in China? Isn't that a little hypocritical cosiderring their ancestors took in 1860's? Take care- A stranger is a friend you don't yet know- or can be. Charles Wyly