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To: stand watie
not even ONE slave ship was "out of" a dixie port.

So if I can show one slave ship registered in New Orleans or Charleston, you'll admit you're wrong?

over 90% of ALL slaves brought to "the new world" were brought here by ships "out of" New England

Laughably wrong. New England ships were small-time players in the slave trade compared to the Portugese and the British, who had been shipping slaves for decades before the first settlers even arrived in New England, much less established a shipping industry there. The Portugese alone shipped 4.5 million slaves--about 40% of the total for the Atlantic slave trade.

365 posted on 04/07/2008 12:03:52 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

How about the The schooner Clotilde?

It was notorious because not only was it out of a “dixie” port, but it was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring slaves from Africa to America.

I hate using wacky-pedia, but it was the first to come up: http://tinyurl.com/4xovne

Of course swattie won’t believe it, preferring to plant his head firmly up his bum (where it sends most of its time), but facts are facts...


366 posted on 04/07/2008 1:13:06 PM PDT by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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