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Subject:	Re: Slave owner or slave
From:	Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:15:49 -0500
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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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