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"Under a Simple Oak Tree

The year was 1861. The American Civil War had shortly begun and the Union Army held control of Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. In May of that year, Union Major General Benjamin Butler decreed that any escaping slaves reaching Union lines would be considered "contraband of war" and would not be returned to bondage. This resulted in waves of enslaved people rushing to the fort in search of freedom. A camp to house the newly freed slaves was built several miles outside the protective walls of Fort Monroe. It was named "The Grand Contraband Camp" and functioned as the United States' first self-contained African American community.

In order to provide the masses of refugees some kind of education, Mary Peake, a free Negro, was asked to teach, even though an 1831 Virginia law forbid the education of slaves, free blacks and mulattos.

She held her first class, which consisted of about twenty students, on September 17, 1861 under a simple oak tree. This tree would later be known as the Emancipation Oak and would become the site of the first Southern reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Today, the Emancipation Oak still stands on the Hampton University campus as a lasting symbol of the promise of education for all, even in the face of adversity." 

 SOURCE: Hampton University Website

I was reading in a discussion group on FACEBOOK about a mother's tactics for keeping her 7 year old daughter from being a victim of molestation...It is quite EXTREME in my own mind.

I think this topic is so very important and wanted to hear from others on WHAT CAN WE DO TO PROTECT, PREVENT AND PROBLEM SOLVE when in comes to sexual molestation of our offspring?

RELEVANT ARTICLES:

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Child-Sexual-Abuse-6-Stages-of-Grooming

http://www.childmolestationprevention.org/pages/tell_others_the_facts.html

http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/child-sexual-abuse.aspx

http://nolongeraslave.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/talking-to-your-children-about-sexual-abuse/

http://overcomingsexualabuse.com/2011/03/12/confessions-of-a-child-molesters-wife/

Education!  Important GEAR for LIFE.