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To: AzaleaCity5691
Not every black person in Georgia was a slave in 1862.

How many and why not?

24 posted on 06/15/2006 5:13:43 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Liberals saying "We Support The Troops" is like OJ looking for the real killers.)
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To: Doctor Raoul
How many and why not?

Someone did not read the article... now did they???

Below is an excert from article...

For some REAL history, Mz. McMillan, the total number of free blacks in Georgia as noted in the 1860 census was only 3,500. By contrast, the total number of slaves in Georgia in 1860 amounted to 462,198! So, NO, Mz. McMillan, it would NOT have made much sense to assume that, on average, a black person in Georgia would have been a free man. There was nothing "more appropriate" to have said to the child but that he would probably have been a slave, Mz. McMillan.

51 posted on 06/15/2006 11:26:42 PM PDT by LowOiL ("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" -Benjamin Rush)
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