Harold,
The justification you provide for purchasing enslaved persons remind of the
decisions of the early US in the matter of land ownership by the Indians. In
a landmark decision, John Marshall concluded (without any input in the case
by Native Americans), that the Natives only had the right of occupation on
their lands and that that right was lost forever when any member of the
tribe, with or without the consent of the whole tribe, to sell any lands
even when the compensation was just a night of drinking. It was also
considered legal to purchase land from an Indian deliberate made intoxicated
to seal the deal.
Justice, sometimes, is in the eye of the beholder.
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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