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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1451813" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>I don't see it as any justification by today's standards but it doesn't make me sick because neither you or I had anything to do with it. This was another era. This is part of history. Heck, France kept slave in Haiti up to the '60's so why does the USA catch all the blame? </p><p></p><p>What offends me is there are those who can't seem to move on who want to lay the blame of slavery on me because I am white. That is utter nonsense because the indians owned slaves the blacks owned slaves and YES white people owned slaves. However, based on the writings and letters of a relative on my mother's side - WE DID NOT own slaves. In her writings she looked upon those who lived on the coast and ran plantations as evil people. In one letter she was beside herself because one of the children went there for something and she was all upset saying it was nothing but a den of iniquity. But we did fight for the south. I don't know if we fought voluntarily or were dragged kicking and screaming to the front lines but we did fight and I can assure you it wasn't for the right to own slaves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1451813, member: 4362"] I don't see it as any justification by today's standards but it doesn't make me sick because neither you or I had anything to do with it. This was another era. This is part of history. Heck, France kept slave in Haiti up to the '60's so why does the USA catch all the blame? What offends me is there are those who can't seem to move on who want to lay the blame of slavery on me because I am white. That is utter nonsense because the indians owned slaves the blacks owned slaves and YES white people owned slaves. However, based on the writings and letters of a relative on my mother's side - WE DID NOT own slaves. In her writings she looked upon those who lived on the coast and ran plantations as evil people. In one letter she was beside herself because one of the children went there for something and she was all upset saying it was nothing but a den of iniquity. But we did fight for the south. I don't know if we fought voluntarily or were dragged kicking and screaming to the front lines but we did fight and I can assure you it wasn't for the right to own slaves. [/QUOTE]
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