{"id":110,"date":"2013-08-14T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=110"},"modified":"2013-08-26T23:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:06:37","slug":"slave-of-j-j-house-1875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/slave-of-j-j-house-1875\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave of J.J. House (1875)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few slaves in this country now except editors, but there is a man in Jackson who has a negro boy that he bought before the war, and &lt;&#8230;&gt; him yet, the emancipation proclamation to the contrary notwithstanding. \u00a0He is a fine black, sleek looking fellow, wears only one suspender, and has his shirt collar open all the time. Why is it that <strong>Charles SUMMER<\/strong> never paid him &lt;&#8230;&gt; and never said anything about taking care of him when he came to die, is a profound mystery. \u00a0He is the property of <strong>Mr. J.J. HOUSE<\/strong>, and he stands all day in front of his stable to hold horses. \u00a0He is about 3 feet high and weighs one hundred and sixty pounds. He is deaf and dumb, and no one ever saw him eat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Jackson Sun, May 21, 1875<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few slaves in this country now except editors, but there is a man in Jackson who has a negro boy that he bought before the war, and &lt;&#8230;&gt; him yet, the emancipation proclamation to the contrary notwithstanding. \u00a0He is a fine black, sleek looking fellow, wears only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[540,539],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-madison","tag-house-j-j","tag-summer-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}