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From: lucius@tardis.UUCP (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
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Subject: Re: Re: Query for Tim Sevener, part 2
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 15:17:32 EST
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	Laura Creighton writes:

> everybody feel that it is just. When slavery was legal in the southern
> United States people routinely argued that the Blacks were better off as
> slaves, living well in the US, than as ignorant barbarians living short,
> miserable lives in Africa. The people who argued that way were sincere. If
> they had been born Black, they really thought that they would prefer to be
> a slave in Virginia than a free man in the Congo.
> 
(especially note last sentence)

	A great many people who were born black back then didn't feel that way.

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