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Another statue was taken down... this time forcibly
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Maxwell. on August 15, 2017, 05:11:24 PM ---I get that you're trying to discredit what the slaves initially did for your country and what they dealt with but economic growth doesn't outweigh it
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you mean the slavery that ended 8 generations ago
Kearn:
--- Quote from: Maxwell. on August 15, 2017, 05:11:24 PM ---I get that you're trying to discredit what the slaves initially did for your country and what they dealt with but economic growth doesn't outweigh it
also my mistake, you can add about 200 years before you got independence as well
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you realize the overwhelming majority of slaves during the first 200 years were white, right?
Nonnel:
--- Quote from: Kearn on August 15, 2017, 05:04:40 PM ---so the solution to this perceived ill is to destroy statues 4 generations old instead of erecting new ones?
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--- Quote from: Red Spy on August 15, 2017, 05:07:54 PM ---152 years of economic growth after that is more important
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what the forget
Drydess:
--- Quote from: Kearn on August 15, 2017, 05:14:50 PM ---you realize the overwhelming majority of slaves during the first 200 years were white, right?
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including indentured servants, you mean
Kearn:
--- Quote from: Drydess on August 15, 2017, 05:16:24 PM ---including indentured servants, you mean
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call them what you will,
--- Quote from: Vice ---Hundreds of thousands of white slaves were kidnapped and brought to America; their middle-passage death rates were comparable to those of black slaves; they were sold at auction and traded for livestock, they were routinely beaten—sometimes to death—and an estimated one half of them died before gaining freedom. It's possible that more whites came to America against their will than blacks. Historians from both ends of the political spectrum say that white slaves were treated worse than black slaves.
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