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To: Sherman Logan
It’s completely disappeared down the memory hole, but quite a few white men were lynched, about 1/3 of the total, if I remember correctly. It was not an exclusively racial phenomenon.

Just as there were thousands of blacks who owned slaves. Some even sold their own children into slavery. Inconvenient facts.

41 posted on 12/18/2013 2:32:00 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Quite true. Now some large percentage of blacks who “owned” slaves had bought their spouses or children out of slavery and were not allowed by the state laws to free them legally.

IOW, there are layers upon layers of caveats to this entire discussion. And we need to keep in mind the difference in scale between black and white ownership of slaves in this country.


43 posted on 12/18/2013 2:36:14 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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