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To: BnBlFlag

I believe that, at one pooint at least, NY, MA, CT, NJ and many others were slave states as well.


29 posted on 08/14/2007 2:09:08 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods
I believe that, at one pooint at least, NY, MA, CT, NJ and many others were slave states as well.

Just about every original colony had slavery at one time or another, though some had outlawed it before the Constitution was ratified.

57 posted on 08/14/2007 11:53:37 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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