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To: Modernman
before you make yourself look more like a dumb-bunny than you already do, check out the MAJOR CORPORATIONS that owned slaves, both in the US & abroad.

fyi, a MAJOR Boston bank & a railroad recently/quietly made a $$$$$-settlement with the desendants of THEIR company's slaves.

free dixie,sw

216 posted on 12/20/2004 2:33:19 PM PST by stand watie ( being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: stand watie
before you make yourself look more like a dumb-bunny than you already do, check out the MAJOR CORPORATIONS that owned slaves, both in the US & abroad.

And your point is? I'm not the one denying that slave ownership by Northerners was reprehensible.

You're the one refusing to admit that a third or so of Southerners owned slaves and that such ownership was reprehensible.

217 posted on 12/20/2004 2:36:25 PM PST by Modernman (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin)
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