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To: justshutupandtakeit
The more enlightened members of the nation in the North

Would that be the same enlightened members that went on to prosecute those that would teach blacks to read and write such as Connecticut in 1836? Or force them to pay a fee to live in their state such as lincoln's home state in 1853? Or completely forbid them from living in their state such as Oregon's constitution in 1859? Ohio? Vermont? New Hampshire? All of these had 'black laws' in one form or another years before lincoln went forth to 'save the nation' as you say. And that would be the same lincoln that recommended shipping all the 'slaves and as many free blacks as can be convinced to go' straight to Liberia.

Oh, yes, lincoln was a just right paragon of virtue. More like a deluded idiot that could be kept quiet as the northern manufacturers waged war on the South

40 posted on 11/21/2001 10:20:30 AM PST by billbears
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To: billbears
Shall we start back up on the Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and the penalties for teaching slaves to read, billbears? We've gone down that path before.

As far as I'm concerned let them put the book in the library. They can even put it in the non-fiction section for all I care. South Carolina schools are ranked, what, 46th in the nation? Either the people won't be able to read it or else by reading it they still won't be able to drive down the school rankings much

42 posted on 11/21/2001 10:26:58 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: billbears
As bad as life for a black may have been in those states and as unfairly as they were treated, life and treatment were far worse in the Slaveocracy. Thus, they were desperate to escape so the Yankees could mistreat them.

Keep trying to make the North look as bad as the Slaveocracy it is really funny to watch the floundering around you do trying to find an argument which has a chance to stand up against a man who knows history and historical lies.

59 posted on 11/21/2001 12:37:38 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit
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