To: WhiskeyPapa
Quite late and quite unusual, and as MacPherson himself notes more of a political action by "fire-eaters" than the ordinary course of business. The vast majority of slaves were imported long before the 1850s, and by New Englanders.
107 posted on
01/09/2004 7:42:47 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
To: AnAmericanMother
Quite late and quite unusual, and as MacPherson himself notes more of a political action by "fire-eaters" than the ordinary course of business.What McPherson notes is that Lamar received a large profit.
No lie is too grotesque for confederate apologists.
Walt
110 posted on
01/09/2004 7:57:06 PM PST by
WhiskeyPapa
(Virtue is the uncontested prize.)
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