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To: 2ndDivisionVet

should financially compensate the descendants of former slaves

Are there any former slaves still living?

11 posted on 03/02/2014 7:25:27 PM PST by teacherwoes (Alethephobia-fear of hearing the truth)

To: teacherwoes

no, there are no former slaves alive today. if they were a slave just one day in 1865 the day before the war ended, they’d be 149 years old.

109 posted on 03/02/2014 8:59:45 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)

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