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Subject:	Re: Slavery and Unanswered Questions
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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:45:18 -0400
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I have presented several sound reasons for believing that there is a skew in the WPA narratives.  You have dismissed them, without engaging with them.

So yes, you *have* ignored reasonable arguments.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:54:49 EDT
>From: [log in to unmask]  
>Subject: Re: Slavery and Unanswered Questions  
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>I don't ignore reasonable arguments.  Rather, I like to investigate  the 
>"everybody knows" style of history to ascertain whether everybody is correct  
>based on all available evidence, including evidence to the contrary.  
> 
>Remember, everybody knew that the sun rotated around the earth in the 16th  
>century, except for a guy named Galileo.
> 
>J South
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Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
Department of History
James Madison University

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