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To: CodeToad

Hmm. I could have sworn that slaves came from the Dutch West Indies in 1619. In Virginia. Yep, think that’s right. Yep. It is right.


113 posted on 06/21/2013 3:15:53 PM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: LS

“Anthony Johnson, a free black, later owned the American Colonies’ first true slave”^

(Schneider, Carl and Schneider, Dorothy. Slavery in America, New York: Infobase Publishing, 2007) wikipedia


116 posted on 06/21/2013 3:20:54 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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