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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

A. Lincoln, March 17, 1865

499 posted on 01/14/2004 2:24:55 PM PST by Restorer
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To: Restorer
No one is arguing for slavery, it's return to this land or anything else. It's been illegal here for almost 140 years. Just some would have us believe that every slave was the victim of a Legree, that slavery was bad, when in actuality, some of the slaves said otherwise:
But, honey, de good ole days is now gone foreber. De ole days was railly de good times. How I wish I could go back to the days w'en we lived at Johnson's landing on de ribber.
"Aunt" Charity Anderson, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, Alabama Narratives, Vol. I, p. 14.

508 posted on 01/14/2004 7:01:10 PM PST by 4CJ (Dialing 911 doesn't stop a crime - a .45 does.)
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