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[Hemingway's Ghost]

Thanks for the post. I also think the Gaspee story is one of the best stories to come out of RI during the Revolutionary War. Damn the eyes of those lobster-backs.

[xJones]

Maybe a movie can be made of that, hopefully as good as Glory

[RipSawyer]

"The author was also surprised to learn that slavery was not limited to the Southern states."

A fact which many would be well advised to remember.

[Trinity5]

"Sullivan knew his depleted forces couldn't win against the British without the French, so he retreated to the northern part of the island, leaving ambushes..."

I hope the newspaper journalist from Rhode Island realizes it isn't actually an island.

[stainlessbanner]

Great post.

[jokar]

Bump.

[stoney]

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[BIGZ]

"Sometimes I didn't want to acknowledge what I was reading. You realize how much is covered up in history," she said. "I wanted to soften facts, but I knew I couldn't. I knew I had to lay out the facts and have it be real."

History? If American schools would teach History there would be far less racial problems in the United States. The true facts of slavery in the United States are never taught.

Muslims were among the first slave traders, moving slaves out of Africa by foot from East to the Muslim countries in the West. Slavery was legal in Saudi Arabia until the mid Sixties. The United States had little to do with selling slaves out of Africa and transporting them to the New World. Five% ( 5% ) of all the Slaves coming to the New World eventually ended up in what is now the United States. The United States almost from it's inception was abolitionist. The Slave trade was the product of the European countries France, England, Spain, Portugal, etc.. The seafaring nations with the ability to move Slaves out of Africa.

History as taught in the schools in the United State would have one believe that the United States was responsible for the entire Slave trade. This is evidenced by the adoption of Muslim names by ethnic groups, EL this Al that, total lack of education.

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