Comments on: Evil and the garden

By: Cards1

Cards1 — Sat, 27 May 2017 17:29:00 +0000

Please understand that all humanity lives and has lived in the wisdom of its day. Before you cast stones understand they are being judged by today’s wisdom. What might we be doing that will be derided in 100 years? For example, who among us drives a gas guzzling SUV that puts tons of carbon dioxide into the air? Fifty years ago nobody would have thought the future would judge that choice. Anthropogenic Global Warming is new to us. Freedom for all people was new to them. Remember that according to the New Testament, even Jesus Christ never denounced slavery.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:55:00 +0000

Thank you for this great article. I grew up in Shaw (on Flad and Flora Pl.) I also am a SLUH graduate. I now live in Richmond, VA – where the past is much more evident. Virginia is definitely part of the south, but not the “deep south” as they say here.

I had always heard that the white stone wall around the original Shaw’s garden had been built by slaves, but like you, didn’t think of Shaw as a slave owner. I had never heard of the Meachum crossing either. Here in Richmond, the city has erected a slave trail (http://www.richmondgov.com/CommissionSlaveTrail/). It’s important for history to be told and to be remembered. I would hope like you that all over St. Louis city, historic markers could be created to remember a tragic and sad part of US history.

By: Antona Smith

Antona Smith — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:06:00 +0000

excellent essay and you are correct, Missouri is the upper south and chooses to have selective memory about her tainted past; slaves were sold at the Old Courthouse, race riots started just over the river in 1917, a precursor to the Civil Rights Movement, this border state, especially in parts of the central and southeast regions, owe their very existence to the slave labor that tilled the ground.