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To: bentway who wrote (199563)	8/31/2012 6:16:16 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542169

The history of the world is the history of aggressive "tribes" with better weapons taking stuff away from the more primitive. I think everyone with a brain eventually "gets" that. I think I remember the biological warfare was mostly false. Plague swept through the Indian communities untintentionally- for the most part. Just as the black plague swept through Europe, borne on the wings of the silk and spice trades. And sure, there's a lot about slavery in the high school lessons. And in the literature books we have prose and poetry from slaves, and from freed blacks. In fact, there is a magnificent poem about George Washington written by a black woman in our literature book. Her name was Phillis Wheatley- if you've never heard about her, you should read up on her. She was an amazing and inspirational person. en.wikipedia.org

To: bentway who wrote (199563)	9/1/2012 2:37:00 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542169

Think about it: SLAVES! SLAVES! Everyone would do well to take a minute and concentrate on what that really was all about. We allowed people to buy and sell other people. Then these people had to work from dawn to dusk in the cotton fields. 100 degrees outside and if they got the flu or a cold, or didn't feel well and could not work, they worked anyway, or were they were whipped. And most whites were pretty much OK with this. And they could torture them at will or even kill them. They bred them, picked out the males and females and then probably watched them engage in sex. Then they took the babies from their mothers. And then polite people would have discussions about whether it was moral, or not. We are such a bunch of fools.