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To: ArrogantBustard
That's a curious price tag ... seems awfully specific. For what, exactly, did you pay $710.96? Did that price include sales tax?

That was for Frederick Douglass in 1846. I don't think sales tax mattered in this transaction.


$710.96... The price of freedom.

36 posted on 07/23/2004 9:59:05 AM PDT by rdb3 (OPEN SOURCE: Millions of open minds can't be wrong.)
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To: rdb3

Hey man, looked at your page. What position did you play (football)?


40 posted on 07/23/2004 10:03:14 AM PDT by Rammer
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To: rdb3
I don't think sales tax mattered

Probably not ... now you've got me wondering: did they even have sales tax then? Yet another topic for obscure historical research.

43 posted on 07/23/2004 10:03:59 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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