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Old 08-13-2006, 08:38 PM   #10
Radar
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
I was referring to your casual dismissal of slavery. It was quite profitable for the South for centuries, and in other parts of the world for even longer.
It wasn't profitable in the Southern States for centuries. The USA didn't even exist for a century before a war was fought to keep the South from leaving the union and ending slavery.

Any slavery that happened before America existed is irrelevant because it wasn't considered unethical back then. A slave was considered to be livestock, not a person.
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