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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“People rented slaves; that is the way it was in those days. People owned slaves. That’s the way it was.”

Didn’t the Lincoln administration use rented slave labor to construct part of the U.S. Capitol during the war to “free the slaves”?

Hopefully someone that knows more about history than I do can comment.


12 posted on 09/18/2017 4:25:41 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

I do know the railroads especially moving westward were built by a labor pool made up of Irish,Chinese,Blacks and others. They were basically “free” slaves.


19 posted on 09/18/2017 6:04:48 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: jeffersondem

You and Michelle Obama - never missing an opportunity to slander American patriots.

Does your disapproval for hiring practices extend to other US presidents who employed slave labor? Would that Include George Washington?


25 posted on 09/18/2017 12:54:37 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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