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To: 11th_VA; V K Lee

Outrageous that the first words about Georg Washington on his Wiki is “slave owner”.

But when you go back in history, almost any Roman citizen of means had a slave or two.

The Julius Caesar wikipedia entry says nothing about his slaves. But several paragraphs down the page it casually mentions that he 1 million people from Gaul slaves.

Slavery was an accepted way of life for centuries. Automation and technology changed that.

Trump was right. We can’t live as a nation with political correctness.


10 posted on 06/19/2020 9:56:05 AM PDT by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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To: poconopundit

“Automation and technology...”

Yep. I was taught in 4th grade that the inventions of the internal combustion engine and the cotton gin made the abolition of slavery *possible* for the first time.
We were also taught that Africans had been considered good farm workers because they didn’t sunburn like white people did.


11 posted on 06/19/2020 2:29:56 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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