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To: stand watie

Sir, I agreed with you that the conditions under which people lived in that area may have qualified as “slavery” from our present perspective.

That is all quite beside the point.

Your claim was that massive numbers of “northern slaves” were sold to the Caribbean Islands during the WBTS.

I have merely asked you to back this claim up with something resembling evidence. All you have produced is anecdotes about “slavery” existing in the islands long after it was supposedly banned.

The existence of “slaves” does not equate to the existence of a slave trade, most especially not to massive numbers of slaves being imported from foreign lands. Most people down through history have lived in slave or semi-slave conditions. Not very many have been shipped across the ocean to other lands.

The overseas slave trade was banned in the US in 1808 or thereabouts, equated with piracy and made a capital crime in 1828, and somebody actually hanged in 1862 or so.

You claim exporting of slaves in large numbers during the WBTS, yet I have never read of a single incident. Please come up with something resembling evidence for this extraordinary claim.


466 posted on 04/14/2008 6:51:25 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan
may i gently suggest that you head over to the local library & seriously look for the information;it will NOT be hard to find. (i'm in TX, trying to settle my aunt's estate & don't have time/resources to do it for you.)

i KNOW that you don't want to admit that the northerners were not only HYPOCRYTES, but also the SELLERS of slaves "to the sugar islands"/out of the USA, as it makes the "crusade against slavery", as touted by the DY extremists LOOK hypocritical, but it IS also the TRUTH!!!.

stripped of "the crusade", the DYs excuses for the rape of dixie & the TENS of THOUSANDS of WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY committed against southern civilians & CSA prisoners of war collapse of those excuses SMALL weight.

face it Sherman, you've been LIED TO & MADE a FOOL OF, as MOST people in the north have. it's really no more complicated than this: the north was the OPPRESSOR;the southerners were the FREEDOM FIGHTERS!

free dixie,sw

467 posted on 04/15/2008 8:58:16 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Sherman Logan

It won’t do any good Sherman - swattie’s noggin is as empty as it is wooden. There ain’t nothing gonna penetrate it. As you’ve been so richly “treated” by now, you see that its only response is a regurgitation of “south=pure as the driven snow - north=spawn of Satan”.

You can’t reason with a bigot, and you shouldn’t argue with an idiot - they’ll wear you down and beat you with experience. swattie is unabashedly both.

He will not accommodate your request for evidence because there is none to be proffered. In true leftist fashion what he doesn’t make up out of whole cloth he twists and distorts until it is nothing more than propaganda.

No doubt you’ve noticed that he presents it with malicious hubris that is initially laughable, but ultimately irritating to even the most patient and tolerant. Unless you march in lockstep with his bizarre notions of history you will be subject to his slanders - there is no middle ground.

Good luck with your project...


468 posted on 04/15/2008 9:23:51 AM PDT by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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