Being a bottle collector it blew my mind that they opened them and cleaned them. It made my heart sink. I would have preferred the content stay in the bottle and the patina be left alone. It's like how a coin collector would feel after someone cleaned an old coin. SAD
Rum cherries! Small, wild cherries that turn black when dead ripe are sweet, and still used to flavor rum and homemade sour mash. My mother said when she was small, her mother would put them in jugs of the product Mom's uncles cooked off for the speakeasy in Olie Valley, PA. Now in Arizona, I have a Mexican native, capulin, which is a rum cherry. Think long strings of blooms each spring. Then strings of cherries covered with bird netting to keep the feathered creeps from stealing all of them.
Yeah it is part of Political correctness, because it all comes down to... Ahem, he isn't the father of our country he was a mean old White Man who made black slaves pick cherries. The more we can learn about this the more we can learn about Critical Race theory. Sad.. yep... learn about the sin through the cherries.. And believe me this is just the beginning. Pretty soon the cherries will come back to life and you will hear the lashes as George chastised dozens of poor helpless slaves.. believe me it is coming. Might even change the name from Mt. Vernon to Mt. DeAngelo.
@@Laura-Kitty also....when we dig up bottles that have been sealed, the closure generally decays upon contact with the air, so the contents would have quickly spoiled. Better to extract and analyze the contents rather than let it rot
I have a Pie Safe from the 1790's.. It still has a Blueberry preserve that spilled on the top. From time to time I will clean the dust off the top and To this day, when I get it wet, the smell of Blueberries waft from it for weeks.
how is it these people are so baffled by historical evidence only as few hundred years old...meanwhile we know libraries worth of info about 4k year old egyptians
It never ceases to amaze me how enthralled people are about allegedly being the first to touch an artifact after a couple of hundred yrs. For all we know, some maintrenance workers could have found them in the 1960's and set them on the floor which eventually was covered with more rubbish, leaves, and dust. Heck anyone can go out and pick up a rock and be the first to ever touch that piece of geology....ever. I think we all like archaology and associate it (many time) with irresponsible treaure hunting. And while that field is interesting, it is difficult to make it a well-paying career without a minimum doctorate.
So what? Does it really matter as long as they’re excited? Why can’t we just be happy that people are happy? Seriously. If people strongly believe something and it gives them motivation, why wouldn’t we support that?
Not enslaved worker, Salves ! Please call them by their actual description. Slaves... BTW slaves can be any color any religion no religion... slaves means the human property of another.
@@pegs1659 No. indentured servants and slaves are not the same thing as indentured slaves actually entered into contracts, that paid off their trip here and covered their housing, food and clothing.
So they opened them. Wow. I don't care what their degrees or skills are, that was a stupid move. Would they remove patina from an artifact to make it look new? They've ruined two rare pieces of history for the sake of "scientific" investigation.
Without learning about the contents we miss out on understanding the entire history of the artifact. Patina is nothing more than a fancy name for dirt.
@@kmoecub Patina is the natural state of age. They knew the contents just by holding them to the light. Science regularly destroys in the name of knowledge. As found, they had intrinsic historic beauty and meaning. Now they're just a couple of old empty bottles with fancy labels. And the contents look like lab samples in dollar store Tupperware knock-off containers. But wait. My mistake. That's not what they look like. That's what they are. Lab samples. Humans never learn.
the bottles aren't ruined. The seal would have decayed upon contact with air, so exposing the bottles at all would have resulted in the destruction of the contents. Now we know what the bottles contained and were used for.
Why do all these people today try to insinuate that only black people did any work in those days. Everyone worked. I am truly sick of all these so called historians trying to place modern day values and practices on those who lived long ago. The past is the past. I do not think trying to rewrite it makes history better.
Championing cultural change as improvement is an old, and still disgusting, way of defending slavery. Slaves did not consent to becoming slaves. Anything after the moment they lost their freedom is immaterial.
