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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
No. Very few people owned slaves...
According to this data: http://www.civil-war.net/census.asp?census=Total
8% did.
Furthermore, what does it matter whether or not his family owned slaves? He's not his ancestors. No one is.
Edit: I know my ancestors did, the German side came over in the late 1880's and the English side were Quakers (vehemently opposed to slavery) |
I don't care what the percentage is...I am still stuck on the fact that millions were hauled here in the first place and God only knows how many died from those shores to these shores...this is why I even hate discussing this type of stuff because it's always someone trying to minimalize the impact that the Slave trade had...I don't care if it was 1% ...there are still issues that have gone on for 400+ years we still haven't resolved yet.
For instance....James Byrd wasn't that long ago and THIS just happened again in TEXAS
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...0,977683.story
Some behaviors just won't die...just people.
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