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To: editor-surveyor

“in the 1800s, up to 75% of the South was Scotch, Scotch-Irish. U.S. Census data between 1800 and 1860 puts the Black population of the South at between 35 and 36.8%. I suppose if you didn’t count blacks as people, then maybe the 75% figure may be correct.


59 posted on 07/10/2015 11:52:11 AM PDT by X Fretensis
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To: X Fretensis

It was written by a black man.

I suspect that you have an exaggerated conception of how many slaves there were.


62 posted on 07/10/2015 3:34:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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