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To: Salvation
The slavery mania in history will dissolve when it reaches the ironic yet straightforward conclusion that people who demanded the right to own slaves demanded very much freedom indeed. Which "very much freedom" we all enjoy today- after a lot of suffering and shed blood.


Gotta read: 'Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation'
By Richard Norton Smith

19 posted on 06/09/2004 10:03:01 AM PDT by mrsmith ("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
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To: mrsmith; sandpit

Once again, thanks for the recommendations.


28 posted on 06/09/2004 11:54:08 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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