PATRON + Margaret Austill (b. 1805) – her life in the Alabama frontier from her diary

This is amazing.

If you had lived in those days you would have had slaves too! The slaves weren’t looked upon as people in bondage even tho they were, but rather they were viewed as a source of help for the people who justified them as an economic commodity for the building of one’s family empire whether it be a few acres or a plantation. The families knew they could not perform the daily tasks without extra labor. This was at the time rationalized & justified because of the enormous work load as acceptable free labor with uneducated humans. Now, should you wonder if most people were religious people to allow such free labor to occur? Yes, they were. And probably many thought it was a blessing from God that He helped them out to be able to purchase and have slaves with their free labor? But in reality it was birthed from the one in the Bible that God calls the “great deceiver” satan. With his tactics of deception used on mankind for thousands of years satan set the human labor bondage of a negro race in motion that would cause conflict then and even unto this present day with race relations. Now ain’t that sumtin’ that what looked as nothing wrong with some free African labor actually turned out to be heartache, pain, suffering and death. But if the people at that time had been “doer’s of the Word(Bible) and not just hearer’s only” they would have known that JOHN 10:10 would be a Biblical reality for generation to generation when the sinful seeds of “nigger” labor was born in the minds of people as being a normal labor human process. Satan was slick with mankind then just as he is today. Same sinful tactics but with new people to use at his will if they will take the bite of his seemingly harmless fruit, which is rotten at the core. Only when mankind will truly follow the Way of God, is when we as people will surely be able to see clearly an ungodly, unjust and unnatural act of SIN…

Love these stories

There was a single white woman who went off to the wilderness where Montgomery now stands in the 1700s and farmed there alone.

Kelli, I was reading Margarets story and Mike was setting on the sofa telling what was happening as I read it. I wish I had his memory

Most fascinating, please tell us more .

Loved the story. Sad that some feel we must still apologize for what happened in the past when we are still doing evil upon the native Americans who dwell in the “concentration” camps our grandfathers forced them to. People have been enslaving their fellow man forever. My Viking ancestors liked to rape, pillage and sell slaves all over their domain. My ancestors were in southern Alabama at the time of this story so it pleases me greatly to read this one My grandparents crossed the Chattahoochee at Columbus on an Indian ferry and an Indian tried to trade a “pickaninny” girl to my grandma for her baby daughter who was an infant. Indians and blacks had slaves too. Historians can not have “politically correct” attitudes.