To: Colonel Kangaroo
Post #122 is not dealing with race at all, its dealing with marriage and the fact that in the American system of slavery, property rights were placed above Gods institution of marriage.
And what about the institution of marriage and the family within the American system of slavery? How did they compare with slavery elsewhere in the New World? What effects did they have on the importation of slaves to America from Africa?
133 posted on
06/13/2009 10:16:48 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: aruanan
If I was a slave owner who had absolute property rights as Dred Scott ruled, I could sell my slave Mr. Jones to another man across the country and still keep Mrs. Jones on my plantation, breaking up the marriage.
To: aruanan
And what about the institution of marriage and the family within the American system of slavery? There was none. Slave marriages were not recognized in any of the Southern slave-holding states.
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