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To: Non-Sequitur
"Kind of long for the slaves to wait, don't you think?"

The slaves didn't wait. The plantation owners did.

95 posted on 02/13/2009 12:40:32 PM PST by davisfh ( Islam is a very serious mental illness)
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To: davisfh
The slaves didn't wait. The plantation owners did.

Because they had their chattel taken away from them. You said slavery was doomed because mechanization would replace it. My point is that the replacement you spoke of was 70 years in the future.

97 posted on 02/13/2009 1:00:10 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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