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To: bboop

Not even one Republican ever own even one slave. Not one. The Republican Party was started to abolish slavery.


92 posted on 12/01/2014 1:04:22 PM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.r)
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To: namvolunteer
Not even one Republican ever own even one slave. Not one. The Republican Party was started to abolish slavery.

While it's true that the Republican Party was founded as an abolitionist party, several prominent Republican's had owned slaves prior to the War of 1861, including the wives of Generals Grant and Sherman.

121 posted on 12/01/2014 1:18:49 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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