This is from the Nov. 6, 1877 Bristol News. Shoutout to Tennessee legislative librarian Eddie Weeks for hooking me up with some archives for a story I’m working on about Forrest.
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This is escalating quicklyhttps://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/1286025652576059394 …
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honestly, that's not the sentence that stands out
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I mean yeah there’s a lot there but it does stand out
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and yet that still isnt a bad enough fate for him.
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Interesting. However, the previous declaration that Forrest was "a warm friend of the colored race," has me questioning the reliability of the entire report.
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"over whom he exercised remarkable influence." I guess buying, selling, enslaving, and murdering people is one way to exercise influence over them.
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Please hang a sign under his bust listing his cause of death
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This is like ye olde onion... “warm friend”
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Hard to imagine how anyone survived in those times. Their nutrition was awful.
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And the sanitation was worse.
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