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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

Slavery was in America jus’ all over the place for a long time. After Independence we began the long, slow work of getting rid of it. In the meantime I don’t think the slaveowners in New York and New England were known as ‘kraker’ or even ‘yankee’.


65 posted on 06/21/2013 6:15:04 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Slavery was in America jus’ all over the place for a long time. After Independence we began the long, slow work of getting rid of it.
 
 

Yep


80 posted on 06/22/2013 5:16:24 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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