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To: KLP who wrote (35583)	5/19/2009 1:31:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "Alright Buddy...you tell me....what exactly is your question and/or your point?" Sure thing, KLP. When you first posted this: Why bother with "what ifs"? The Civil War settled the slavery issue. At great cost to families on both sides, including mine. There it should have been fought is in the country that enslaved their own people, and sold them to other slavers to bring to this country. Most slaves came from Africa. The Africans themselves sold their OWN people into slavery. Message 25637613 Since it seemed that you were trying to 'justify' slavery by 'blaming' it mostly on the slavers who captured and sold the people originally, (actually to a large part Arab traders, and later Portuguese and others, as well as rival warring tribes... but that is off the point), and not on the final owners of the slaves... I asked you "*What about the CHILDREN* (often several generations) who were subsequently born into slavery?**" (Particularly after the British ocean-going trade in African/Cuban slaves was made illegal, several breeding plantations were run in various states to keep the slave markets supplied.) Were they, the children, somehow 'guilty' or 'responsible' for their situations as well? (That was the question I was trying to get answered....)