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To: muawiyah
My impression was the crews on the slave ships were all Southerners.

Not so. Many New Englanders were deeply involved in the transAtlantic slave trade, when it was still "legal", and the family fortune of no small number of New England's finest families were either increased, or started by the trade. Not normally publicized, for obvious reasons, but a fact nonetheless...

the infowarrior

31 posted on 11/15/2004 4:47:48 PM PST by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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32 posted on 11/15/2004 5:29:34 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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