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To: reg45; kidd
IIRC, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson did also.

Neither one did actually. But now that you have mentioned him I suppose that the NAACP will have to pickett Jackson County, Florida next.

61 posted on 08/16/2013 11:21:16 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: 0.E.O

Was Jackson even a slaveowner? I know he held a position as a teacher at a military school in Virginia (I believe that school was a predecssor to VMI). I was not aware that he even owned any land or a plantation.

Obviously, another historical fact that escapes race baiters: most of the people who fought on the Confederate side of the war were NOT slave owners, mainly because slaveowners were in the minority, and slaveowners were largely exempted from Confederate conscription laws passed as the war went on (mostly because leaders feared large numbers of increasingly rebellious slaves being held on planatations where there was no male presence to keep order).


64 posted on 08/16/2013 11:27:21 AM PDT by stremba
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