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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart
So, if she says that she owned the slaves and her favorite slave ran away in 1864, then I think we're going to have to believe her.

You may well do so. Mrs. Grant dictated the memoirs, she didn't write them. They were edited by John Simon, who is credited as author instead of Mrs. Grant. And then, of course, there is the fact that the Grant family must have deliberately violated the laws of the state of Missouri, or Illinois, or the District of Columbia, or Ohio, or wherever they lived when the 13th Amendment was ratified, yet somehow this has escaped all his biographers. But hey, believe what you want.

402 posted on 11/22/2006 1:03:38 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Mrs. Grant dictated the memoirs, she didn't write them.

So she didn't read them when they were done. Didn't check to see what the ghost writer put down on paper. Alright...it's late, so we'll go with your crazy theory because heaven forid Julia Dent Grant knows when her slaves were freed. No...not possible. It's a conspiracy theory.

Who killed Lincoln?

Who killed Kennedy?

Who was responsible for 9/11?

Who changed Julia Dent Grant's memoirs and made NS look bad on a thread?

Inquiring minds want to know...

406 posted on 11/22/2006 1:19:13 PM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!)
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