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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

My bad, so who was a slave, just the nieces and nephews of the last slaves brought in 1808?


377 posted on 03/31/2010 8:09:02 PM PDT by mainsail that
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To: mainsail that
My bad, so who was a slave, just the nieces and nephews of the last slaves brought in 1808?

Actually, yes. After 1808, the expansion of the slave population was due to the fecundity of the slaves themselves. That's not to say that there wasn't probably some smuggling going on, but between the British vigilance on the high seas, and the trouble getting a shipful of hundreds of human beings past customs and unloaded without the "wrong" people noticing, I doubt it made a significant contribution.

493 posted on 04/01/2010 4:24:18 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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