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To: RMF who wrote (36480)	8/26/2009 2:38:46 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71588

In a realistic sense slavery didn't end until decades AFTER the Civil War. No in a realistic sense legal slavery, and common slavery, in the US ended shortly after the war. Slavery has a specific meaning. Extending it to include things that aren't slavery isn't "realistic" its just a distortion of language, even if the other things have some vague similarity to slavery or are considered by some to be nearly as bad as slavery. it was also miners in West Virginia that were essentially enslaved by the "company store". No, they where not.