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Subject:	Re: Slavery and Unanswered Questions
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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:39:01 -0400
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Here, if anywhere, is to be found the pot calling the kettle black :)

It is astounding to me how deeply ideological commitments can cloud judgment, even to the point that they lead an otherwise rational person to ignore reasonable arguments.

Good methods will produce good arguments.  Methodology is ideologically neutral.  Alas, the same can not be said for the statement below.

All best,
Kevin

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>Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:18:07 EDT
>From: [log in to unmask]  
>Subject: Re: Slavery and Unanswered Questions  
>To: [log in to unmask]

>I love the way historians like to take such first hand accounts and  discount 
>the veracity of the interviewee to meet their intellectual and academic  
>point of view.
> 
>J South
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>************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
Department of History
James Madison University

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