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To: donmeaker
You don't think that the white slavers didn't travel among the poor whites expecting and demanding the same deference that they got to slaves?

I think I understand the implication you're trying to make, even though your grammar is horrible.

Many of the 'white slavers' were yankees.

And the wholesale lawlessness that you are suggesting was the order of the day in the South didn't occur until Reconstruction.

My, you are naive

Sounds like you've swallowed the Alex Haley Roots story hook, line and sinker.

My, you are gullible.

BTW, it ain't rape when they consent. Are you so naive that you believe that slave women had to be raped to have sex with white men?

688 posted on 07/17/2006 8:14:38 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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To: cowboyway

I know it would be the only way that you could get any.


698 posted on 07/17/2006 10:06:55 PM PDT by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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To: cowboyway

I am quite aware of the fictional nature of the "Roots" narratives.

On the other hand, you claim that there were Yankees traveling all over the south buying and selling slaves, while the poor honest southern gentlemen only asked their slaves nicely if they wanted to be honored, and only bought and sold slaves to protect them from the evil conditions brought on by the white slavers.

Further, the southern gentlemen somehow couldn't get a majority in the state legislature to ban slavery, probably because so many Yankees were always coming south to vote.

I guess you and stand watie have been sharing the same bottle.


702 posted on 07/17/2006 10:22:16 PM PDT by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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