Here is another history lesson I found very interesting:
"Memory Lane Moments
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“This is my great-grandma, Christina Levant Platt at age 100, weeding her garden. She was born into slavery. Her “owner” was a wife that taught my great grandma to read and write secretly, which was illegal and quite dangerous at that time for both of them. She learned to read the Bible.
She had 11 children, she lost two, one son was one of the first black attorneys in US. She sent the 4 boys to college in Boston. Exceptional in those days.
She passed 5yrs before I was born but I love her as if I knew her. Family tells me she would say “ I put prayers on my children’s children’s heads”.
This apparently worked💜
Around April 12, 1861, Christina was at the 1st battle of the CIVIL WAR, in Fort Sumter at Charleston Bay, South Carolina, working in the cotton fields.
She said “the sky was black as night” from cannonball fire. She saw a man decapitated by a cannonball.
She was the water girl for the other slaves as a young girl and “ the lookout” for the slaves in the fields for the approaching overseer on horseback as they secretly knelt and prayed for their freedom.
She would watch for the switching tail of the approaching horse and would alert the slaves to rise up and return to picking cotton before he saw them.
She eventually married a Native American from the Santee Tribe. John C, Platt.
After freedom, Christina insisted upon taking her children north as she knew they would not get a good education in the south, and that’s all she cared about. She died at age 101 in 1944, where she and her husband had built a home in Medfield, Massachusetts, the first black family to move there.
With great respect, I honor my great grandmother.
So much more I could say about this miraculous woman. She gave me much strength in my hard times.
Whenever I thought I was having a hard day, I would think of her and shrug it off
𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘀
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“This is my great-grandma, Christina Levant Platt at age 100, weeding her garden. She was born into slavery. Her “owner” was a wife that taught my great grandma to read and write secretly, which was illegal and quite dangerous at that time for both of them. She learned to read the Bible.
She had 11 children, she lost two, one son was one of the first black attorneys in US. She sent the 4 boys to college in Boston. Exceptional in those days.
She passed 5yrs before I was born but I love her as if I knew her. Family tells me she would say “ I put prayers on my children’s children’s heads”.
This apparently worked💜
Around April 12, 1861, Christina was at the 1st battle of the CIVIL WAR, in Fort Sumter at Charleston Bay, South Carolina, working in the cotton fields.
She said “the sky was black as night” from cannonball fire. She saw a man decapitated by a cannonball.
She was the water girl for the other slaves as a young girl and “ the lookout” for the slaves in the fields for the approaching overseer on horseback as they secretly knelt and prayed for their freedom.
She would watch for the switching tail of the approaching horse and would alert the slaves to rise up and return to picking cotton before he saw them.
She eventually married a Native American from the Santee Tribe. John C, Platt.
After freedom, Christina insisted upon taking her children north as she knew they would not get a good education in the south, and that’s all she cared about. She died at age 101 in 1944, where she and her husband had built a home in Medfield, Massachusetts, the first black family to move there.
With great respect, I honor my great grandmother.
So much more I could say about this miraculous woman. She gave me much strength in my hard times.
Whenever I thought I was having a hard day, I would think of her and shrug it off
𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘀
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7 comments:
...yes today, we don't really know what a hard day is.
Liebe Iris, ja, diese Geschichtsstunden sind wirklich immer sehr interessant. Und es ist definitiv so, dass man sich, wann immer man glaubt, einen harten Tag zu haben, Menschen wie diese Ururgroßmutter und deren Leben vor Augen halten sollte.
Danke für deine Antworten auf meine Fragen von neulich!
Alles Liebe, Traude
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I came away with such respect for someone's great grandmother. Yours, Iris? Or whose? A great story no matter who she was. Thanks for sharing it.
I know two of my great grand dad fought in civil war. On the union side.
Tom, yes, our "hard days" are very much easier!!!
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Liebe Traude, wäre ich jünger, ich würde vielleicht Lehrerein für Geschichte werden und diese "Snippets" an jede Geschichtsstunde nach Lehrbuch anhängen.
Mein Englischleherer war Brite, im Sprachlabor gabs Rock-Musik zu übersetzen und wir hatten zusätzlich auf Wunsch z.B. "Surprising Stories" und solche Sachen. Wenn man Kinder begeistern und lehren will, findet man Wege!
Auf meine Antworten: Gerne -wir sind eine Community und lernen von einander! Alles Liebe!
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Barabara, to respect! No, I am German, this lady was an American Slave.
I knew only my Grandmother, she was from Königsberg, Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia, she raised us. All others had passed long before I was born, sadly.
I missed real history in school, now I find it easily online and share :-)
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Dora, wow. I have no knowledge of mine... Other than my Mom´s Dad was captured by the Russians but survived and my Dad´s Father did not join Hi#ler ciase he was the only watchmaker in town and could stay.
Another very interesting and nice post
History is so interesting!!!!
Will ours be, too?
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