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Originally Posted by merrylander
The carpetbaggers simply went down south to steal everything they could get their hands on, it was not buying up plantations at fire sale prices (that is not different than those that buy foreclosed properties today) but they resorted to every rotten scheme in the book, and some that were not in the book.
Not all slave owners were as nasty as those protrayed in fiction, in fact if you were to visit Williamsburg in VA you would see that although slave quarters look bloody miserable by todays standards, the homes of the poor whites were no better.
Who is worse, the Arabs who rounded up the blacks in Africa, the ship owners who brought them over here, or the people that bought them? Considering the sad lot that the workers in the northern mills had one might think that those that railed against slavery were just a tad sanctimonious.
No man has a right to own another human being, but there are degrees of ownership.
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Here, Here !! We're ALL "owned" by the Federal gov't, the local gov't, and/or the local bank you have yr mortgage with...Just don't pay yr taxes or miss a few payments & you'll find out just how "Free" you really are...
04-13-2010, 12:10 PM
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