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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15503)1/4/2002 3:28:49 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
excuse me for giggling at the pretentiousness and wacky ideas of the founding idea.

Maurice,

The words are beautiful and you should not be poking fun at them. Ultimately, these words helped free the slaves. You may not be aware of it, but a significant number of Americans were resolutely opposed to slavery and pointed out this hypocrisy from the beginning...

1783 Quaker Anti-Slavery Petition to the United States Congress
rootsweb.com

P.S. I discovered this because one of the signers appears to be an ancestor of mine.
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