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1 posted on 03/02/2003 4:03:49 PM PST by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
Were they in Ted Kennedy's backyard?
2 posted on 03/02/2003 4:05:55 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: Pokey78
Oops....
3 posted on 03/02/2003 4:06:27 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Pokey78; mhking
Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War is an interesting read from the CIA. Thanks for the post, interesting!
4 posted on 03/02/2003 4:08:02 PM PST by chance33_98 (Freep On)
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To: Pokey78
Katie Couric is descended from slave owners.
5 posted on 03/02/2003 4:10:05 PM PST by mabelkitty (Let's be pro-active - Start an "Impeach Hillary" campaign before she announces her candidacy)
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To: Pokey78
America had slaves?...I am shocked....schocked I say....
6 posted on 03/02/2003 4:11:50 PM PST by Khurkris (Onward...thru the fog.)
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To: Pokey78
And I'm sure it is a coincidence of cosmic proportions that these "discoveries" are coming to light right at the same time as the discussion on slavery reparations.
8 posted on 03/02/2003 4:21:59 PM PST by TomB
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To: Pokey78
Hey I just remembered, you can't post articles about black's, Black history month is over! ;) < /sarcasm>
11 posted on 03/02/2003 4:30:06 PM PST by chance33_98 (Freep On)
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To: Pokey78
Slaveowners in the North
14 posted on 03/02/2003 4:35:46 PM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: Pokey78
I don't find these allegations of "slavery" convincing. Housing a group of workers in buildings is hardly evidence. A large ranch has bunkhouses for cowboys, after all, and the guys get paid as well as receiving part of their compensation in form of room and board.

The reparations crew will point to anything that indicates that more than one black person lived in a 2348634-mile radius as evidence of slavery.
16 posted on 03/02/2003 4:47:04 PM PST by PoisedWoman (Fed up with the liberal media)
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To: Pokey78
But, but, I didn't know. I didn't know.

OK, let's eat.

19 posted on 03/02/2003 4:53:29 PM PST by lawdude
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To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
History alert!

Black conservative ping

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20 posted on 03/02/2003 4:56:54 PM PST by mhking (And the kick is off....a long booming kick into the endzone; first and ten, Iraqis on their 20...)
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To: Pokey78
But....do they care at all about the CURRENT slave trade in Sudan? Sheesh.
22 posted on 03/02/2003 5:16:21 PM PST by goodnesswins (Thank the Military for your freedom and security....and thank a Rich person for jobs.)
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To: Pokey78
"Historians are stunned by some of the evidence," said Cheryl LaRoche, a historical archaeologist at the University of Maryland.

"The popular notion is that slavery in the North consisted of two or three household servants, but there is growing evidence that there were slaveholding plantations," she said. "It's hard to believe that such a significant and pervasive part of the past could be so completely erased from our history."

Nothing new here to Southerners and true historians.

24 posted on 03/02/2003 5:28:19 PM PST by varina davis
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To: Pokey78
I wonder ... just how would you know from a skeleton whether it was a slave or not? Just because it was a black person doesn't necessarily mean the person was a slave. Also it's very possible that they wanted to live and work on a plantation, estate etc. for the the same reasons today that others work for wealthy people. I guess it depends on your outlook when you find the skeletion.
30 posted on 03/02/2003 6:25:06 PM PST by nmh
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To: Pokey78
This article has a certain stench about it... . Why was it that when the slaves got to the north they were "free" ? Why did sounthern blacks escape and head north if not for freedom?
31 posted on 03/02/2003 6:29:58 PM PST by nmh
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To: Pokey78
Hmmmm...interesting.
43 posted on 03/03/2003 6:59:38 AM PST by Zeroisanumber
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To: GOPcapitalist; billbears; stainlessbanner; aomagrat; shuckmaster
Ping, y'all.
45 posted on 03/03/2003 7:07:45 AM PST by Constitution Day
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