Re: They turn the electricity back on to the US embassy in Cuba yet?

That's an interesting question. For example, the City of New York, owns Rufus King Manor, a now 25 (?) room house in Jamaica, Queens. He was known as the "last Federalist, signer, our first ambassador to Great Britain, and New York's first Senator" I think. The house is in part open to the public and and he sits in an all white sculpture in his library (by the way, one of the stoves was made in one of the Bronx foundries, the Mott foundry, which made many ironworks shipped around the world. The other "South Bronx" foundry, Janes and Kirtland made and assembled the Capitol dome for President Lincoln for a little over a million after building a fireproof Library of Congress). Rufus King was publicly very opposed to slavery, he bought the place from a man who had 10 slaves. I have been on two or three archaeology testing phases there by a couple of RPA archaeologists (Grossman, Stone) and the question I am not sure was considered hypothetically, as the practical archaeology, of testing where the new porch, pathways, and replacement beams in the "summer kitchen" house was the motivation of the archaeology, why even the location of termite traps were to be tested. Also, from my experience at the Waverly Plantation nearby Columbus, Mississippi, the larger "places" for slaves were said not to be nearby the "big house" and closer to fields further away. A similar problem was with the "Wanderer". You can find 200 years of "sheet scatter" behind the house of the ship builder and chandler that sold it to the Louisiana cotton merchants broker, read about the boarding of it by the British naval officer in the blockade of Africa, and his disbelief that a luxury yacht could not be used as such, read the correction to its building for the bronze plaque on Jekyll Island Georgia where it put in 1858 (Wikipedia) with 400 of 600 poor souls who survived the "Middle Passage" and read how the ship became a chess piece in the Civil War, used as a very fast mail packet, on both sides, read about its survivors (the African-American "Doublemint twins" descendants (Newsday) that anthropologists have found, yet unless someone knows where they went after being fed from the big cast iron kettle on Jekyll Island (playground of the more modern rich Americans today) you would have a hard time finding archaeological evidence, even if you dove onto the wreck of "Wanderer" off Cape Maysi (old Spanish, named by Christopher Columbus, the east tip of Cuba near Guantanamo) with its large "water tanks" put on in Port Jefferson, NY for trans-Atlantic crossing, which sank in a storm in the "fruit trade" in the early 1870's, you would find little evidence. I read the real problem too is finding archaeological evidence for it in East Africa though known to have gone on for centuries in trade to Asia. World Archaeology Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group Issue: Volume 33, Number 1 / June 1, 2001 Pages: 44 - 60 Islam, archaeology and slavery in Africa J. Alexander Abstract: Two different types of chattel slavery, those permitted by the Christian and Islamic religions, were introduced into Africa but only the Christian slave trade to the Americas has been studied by archaeologists. The much longer duration (over 1000 years) of the Islamic slave trade to Asia and of the Dar el Islam in North and East Africa is at present known only from literary and eyewitness accounts. It will prove difficult to recognise archaeologically and new techniques will have to be developed. Even more difficult to recognise will be the indigenous forms of slavery which existed in many parts of the continent at the coming of both Christianity and Islam, and the interaction between the three different concepts on which they were based. Keywords: Chattel Slavery Dar El Islam Dar El Mu'HAA Dar El Harb Bilad Es Sudan Zanj Jihad Posted to histarch forum today.