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To: Pelham; CharlesWayneCT
What counted for the Africans is how Virginia colonial law saw them, ...

Oh, undoubtedly! They certainly must have been most concerned with the documents of indentured servitude and Virginia law not the fact that they had been spirited away against their will. Although they most likely didn't actually sign any documents, a concept they probably had no understanding of. Nor of European-style contract law, nor the English language or any other European language.

No, it was the law and the documents someone else signed for them and gave to their owners and the laws behind those incomprehensible concepts, entirely foreign to them and unexplained to them, that meant the most. Not being kidnapped and forced to labor under the whip and at the point of a gun.

I'm beginning to understand what you're really trying to defend here. It's your complete lack of a moral compass supplanted by your reliance on pseudo intellectualism. At least it's not the defense of a Democrat who is shooting himself in the foot that you're working for, so you've got that going for you!

169 posted on 02/11/2019 8:07:32 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye

“I’m beginning to understand what you’re really trying to defend here. It’s your complete lack of a moral compass supplanted by your reliance on pseudo intellectualism.”

No, it just means that like the MSM you try wrapping yourself in fake moral superiority when you have no ability to make your case.

You’re only fooling yourself. Evidently that’s a low bar to hurdle.


191 posted on 02/12/2019 12:13:24 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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