tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488052677647528167.post8586751593293028741..comments2024-02-02T19:57:37.779-05:00Comments on A Rolling Crone: A White Slave Girl “Mulatto Raised by Charles Sumner”by Joan Gagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504224017690336384noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488052677647528167.post-76200741427824767682018-12-21T12:14:44.242-05:002018-12-21T12:14:44.242-05:00M. Scoby--Thank you for your comment. When I firs...M. Scoby--Thank you for your comment. When I first published a blog post about the photograph of Gordon, back in 2009, a reader named Carlos commented that he saw on wikipedia that the slave's name was actually Peter. I'm pasting my comment to him below. I do believe that Gordon was the slave's correct name but perhaps some publications reporting on the photo got the information wrong.<br /><br />Carlos--sorry I didn't read your comment until now. I looked up the wikipedia reference--(evidently it was originally written in French?). Anyway, I have seen the original article in Harper's Weekly 4th July 1868 with the description of Gordon's escape and arrival in the Union Camp at Baton Rouge. An engraving of the same photo in the Harper's article--with the same scars on his back--was titled "Gordon Under Medical Inspection". The name "Gordon" was repeated throughout the article. The surgeon who examined him was quoted in the article. He sent the photos on to the surgeon general of the State of Massachusetts.<br /><br />You're right that a photo that old would be in black and white--not colored. The image I own is a much later glass slide of that same photograph that has been hand-colored. A black and white carte-de-visite version (mounted on cardboard the size of a visiting card) was widely circulated both in the United State and in Great Britain. The later glass slides could be projected on a wall and probably dated from the late 1900's. These slides would be used to illustrate speeches about the evils of slavery. This glass slide that I own was recently used in the PBS Series "God in America."<br />by Joan Gagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10504224017690336384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488052677647528167.post-55223248010260164292018-12-16T16:29:58.424-05:002018-12-16T16:29:58.424-05:00I love what you have and the one picture of the ma...I love what you have and the one picture of the man with the marks on his back name was George. If you would go to the library of Congress and look up the picture read the complete facts you will find Gordon and George information side by side .Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12216857831668555025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488052677647528167.post-17510789101565087342016-08-02T21:25:16.483-04:002016-08-02T21:25:16.483-04:00Interested in what happened to cousin Mary Mildred...Interested in what happened to cousin Mary Mildred. Have her and Seth in the family database, but nothing on her after 1855.David E Bottshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04399665323925807437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488052677647528167.post-68164089924661717742013-08-09T18:22:18.155-04:002013-08-09T18:22:18.155-04:00This article is fascinating. I wonder what happen...This article is fascinating. I wonder what happened to the little girl? Although it was good that her portrait garnered sympathy, it's a pity that a daguerreotype of a dark child would not have gotten as much sympathy.Bibiananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488052677647528167.post-86161469747982183482012-11-10T19:35:26.388-05:002012-11-10T19:35:26.388-05:00Hi Elizabeth! Write me at my e-mail address: joan...Hi Elizabeth! Write me at my e-mail address: joanpgage@yahoo.com - and let me know your mailing address. I have many pages of information about the Ash Grove plantation and the people who lived there --info that I'm sure would be useful to you in your research. I'll send you copies of all of it Then you can share what you learn about Caroline with me. I suspect she brought "my" dag of Mary Botts with her from Massachusetts since her family were such prominent abolitionists--and undoubtedly friends with Sumner.by Joan Gagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10504224017690336384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488052677647528167.post-42409172059999802162012-11-10T11:41:07.016-05:002012-11-10T11:41:07.016-05:00I am overwhelmed. Capt. Franklin Sherman and his w...I am overwhelmed. Capt. Franklin Sherman and his wife Caroline Matilda Clapp Alvord were my great, great grandparents. She came from a family of devote abolitionists. An Alvord married Anna Grew who was raised by her uncle Rev. Henry S. Grew. He and his daughter Mary Grew were prominent in the movement.I am researching Caroline to understand her motivation to move from Greenfield, MA to teach freedmen. Would like to correspond with you.<br /><br />Elizabeth MorganAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488052677647528167.post-25955451845507693512012-01-10T23:22:22.058-05:002012-01-10T23:22:22.058-05:00Very interesting.Very interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com