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To: arrogantsob

It seems you are not aware of the fact that slavery was brought to the colonies by the British Crown, with Americans from every colony opposing the practice. Is the insurrection your refer to the War of Independence?


10 posted on 07/07/2012 12:50:13 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge

What does the origin of an evil system have to do with its enthusiastic perpetuation?

Americans never had a choice in how the British government ruled them. They were subjects not citizens. Hence they violated no laws they had agreed to be ruled under.

Naturally your red herring only smells.


12 posted on 07/07/2012 12:56:28 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Obama must Go.)
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To: PeaRidge

Not just the British Crown. Africans were an integral part of the slave trade, and a slave-holding African, Anthony Johnson (”Antonio The Angolan”) was responsible for bringing the law suit that established chattel slavery for the first time in the colonies.


16 posted on 07/07/2012 1:13:23 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: PeaRidge

He was probably referring to the failed insurrection of the southron slavocracy.


25 posted on 07/08/2012 8:47:59 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: PeaRidge

“It seems you are not aware of the fact that slavery was brought to the colonies by the British Crown”

Maybe AFTER slavery was institutionalized as a legal practice by a black man that enslaved another black man; Anothony Johnson enslaved for life John Casor. Prior to that, indentured servants were held but only for five to seven years to pay off their debt for being brought to the colonies.


33 posted on 07/09/2012 11:25:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (uired to vote for a treaty.)
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