J South,
You have a good analogy, but somehow I suspect you are wearing it backwards.
It is the white merchants and slaveowners who "poisoned the well". The
poisoned folks were the unfortunate Africans who were rounded up and
transported into enslavement along with their African gatherer-uppers. If
there had been no market for slaves, there would have been no
gatherer-uppers. The white merchants and slaveowners were the ones who
professed that their christianity made them more "moral" than the Africans.
Anne Pemberton
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