In the Land of the Free I was Chattel Sally Hemmings
by David G Wilson
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Title
In the Land of the Free I was Chattel Sally Hemmings
Artist
David G Wilson
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Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
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In a land where "Freedom" is the "CHANT OF PRIDE", I was shakled, beaten and force to labor, unrewarded and dehumanized, living in the most deplorable conditions to serve the hippocrites whose religion professses the brotherhood of man, only that I was omitted from that brotherhood. To assuage his christian guilt for my dehumanization, he reduced my status to three fifth of a human, in order to justify his crime before his god and simultaneously satisfy his pecuniary needs. I was the objective target of his lechery, forced to satisfy his carnal desires as his rapacious whims demanded. In spite of all this dehumanization and ill-treatment, I became the "object" of his hatred. I was reduced to chattel that could be traded commercially.
Sally Hemmings was the mistress that Thomas Jefferson never acknowledged. She was the half-sister of his late wife; the slave gifted to him and his wife, Mary Wayles on the occasion of their marriage. On the death of his wife, Sally became his life long concubine who never left his side until his death on July 4th, 1826. Well, times were such that for political reasons he could not. Can you imagine what the Republicans and the Tea Party people of today would say?
� David G. Wilson
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February 20th, 2010
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