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To: wardaddy
because capitalist had carte blanch from the Crown to make a few bucks only condemns the few ship owners and venture capitalists to trade rum for slaves, slaves for molasses and molasses for Rum.

but I only know from reading about these things...because my fore bearers were sunning themselves (in squalor) in southern Europe while all this was going on....and didn't arrive till the early 1900’s.

160 posted on 02/07/2009 1:02:34 PM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero
how convenient that you missed all the fun

/s

one could worse than sunning off the Appian way....speaking of which...let's bring up Roman atrocities shall we senator?

217 posted on 02/07/2009 4:24:56 PM PST by wardaddy (I'm for Sarah. Nuff said, you either get it or you don't. Enjoy Steele, he's no Palin.)
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