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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (57768)	1/19/2009 12:54:29 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224774

Mistreatment would also be defined by the times....I remember well having to caution my great grandmother not to use certain words she used to refer to black people.....she meant no harm by them....it was just was you called black people in the late 1800's and early 1900's when she was a little girl. She outlived her time but the point is valid....the times will define the specific mores.....

To: MJ who wrote (57768)	1/19/2009 1:41:34 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224774

What southern landowner did not have slaves in the 1700s? Plantations could never have developed without that type of labor. it was used as well at that time THROUGHOUT most parts of the world - including Africans themselves enslaving their fellow countrymen. Carribean sugar plantations were another magnet for slave ships. It's part of world history than any civilized person would rather change, if possible, but the USA was by no means the only country using slave labor centuries ago.