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To: Non-Sequitur
1) Julia Dent owned slaves.

2) By your own words the property of the wife is the property of the husband.

3) Now, you are saying that Julia Dent Grant's memoirs are a work of fiction. And words attributed to in the volume aren't hers.

4)If you disregard everything that is unfavorable to your argument then there can be no common ground on which to discuss anything.

That's how I explain that.

382 posted on 11/22/2006 12:07:23 PM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!)
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart
1) Julia Dent owned slaves.

So you say.

2) By your own words the property of the wife is the property of the husband.

To the best of my knowledge that was the law in all the states during the mid-19th century.

3) Now, you are saying that Julia Dent Grant's memoirs are a work of fiction. And words attributed to in the volume aren't hers.

Not a work of fiction. But when the claim made in the memoirs contradict known facts of the time - that the Grants did not live anywhere that slavery was legal at the time of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, that none of the Dent family slaves were seen with Mrs. Grant or anyone else after February 1863 - then one has to wonder if that particular passage in the book is accurate. Given that it was published so long after the fact and long after Mrs. Grant was dead, it's not hard to conclude that an error or two might have crept in.

4)If you disregard everything that is unfavorable to your argument then there can be no common ground on which to discuss anything.

No that seems to be your area.

388 posted on 11/22/2006 12:22:23 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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