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To: Brooklyn Attitude
What percent is “quite a lot”?

From the 0% you mentioned, one is an infinity more than zero.

I've given you two.

Yes, in larger terms, Republican slave owners were few, but not zero.

I don’t think anyone believes the number of Republican slave owners was over a couple of percent.

The numbers of Republican slave owners was likely very small. I think most were members of the Whig party that moved to the Republican party. The "Republican" party was after all founded to oppose slavery, so a "Republican" slave owner is a bit of a contradiction, isn't it? :)

135 posted on 04/05/2024 4:57:20 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

“Yes, in larger terms, Republican slave owners were few, but not zero.”

I never said the number of Repub slave owners was zero. I said “nearly all” were DemocRATS. 98-99% is close enough to nearly all unless you are trying to nitpick. Perhaps you would prefer “vast majority”. In either case you seem determined to defend the Party of slavery and the KKK.


140 posted on 04/05/2024 5:46:18 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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