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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:23 PM Original message |
What if there had been no slavery? |
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razorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. How they would be treated today is anyone's guess. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. the ripping up of the families |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. One would like to think that blacks would have owned land and |
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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I doubt the British really had the means to make the deal. Much less keep it. |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. It is human nature to find differences and diffentiate based on them |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
6. If there had been no slavery, then when would blacks have |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. The curse of slavery is a world-wide phenomenom |
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TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. Do you mean no slavery of Africans anywhere? |
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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I think you're right about the Civil War. |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. The rethugs would be bitching about all the African immigrants |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
10. The slave system was nearly universal |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. There probably wouldn't be very many Blacks in America at all if slavery wasn't in America. |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 07:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I thought African-Americans were only around 13%...? n/t |
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dave_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 09:38 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Yes, 13% |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 10:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Thanks for the reality check... |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. Are you specifically talking about in this country? |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
15. What would have happened is... |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
16. No slavery or ... |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
17. Well..slavery still exists. |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
18. Then there would be no United States |
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dave_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. A very different US |
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