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julia-barnes
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There was a black man in Kershaw county who owned over 100 slaves in the 1840s and 1850s. His name escapes me right now, but by owning over 100 slaves it put him in the top 1% of plantation owners in the nation.

- Lee Cole




I see NO reason for South Carolina to apologize.

Lee, this may give you some data regarding your post:
"Black Americans continued to hold slaves through the Civil War. In 1860, some 3,000 blacks owned nearly 20,000 black slaves. In South Carolina alone, more than 10,000 blacks were owned by black slaveholders. [See also "Black Slaveowners."]

Born a slave in 1790, William Ellison owned 63 slaves by 1860, making him one of Charleston's leading slaveholders. In the 1850 census for Charleston City, the port of Charleston, there were 68 black men and 123 black women who owned slaves. "
http://www.issues-views.com/index.php/sect/23000/article/23018
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01st March 2007 00:20 a.m.
art-kaldas
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Present generations should not spend their time and energy apologizing for what happened in past history. Egyptians owned a whole nation of Hebrew slaves thousands of years ago and they are not expected to apologize for it any time soon. However, we need to learn from history. Modern day slavery is allowing corporate America to hire illegal aliens and use them as slave labor.
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01st March 2007 00:59 a.m.
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Egyptians owned a whole nation of Hebrew slaves thousands of years ago and they are not expected to apologize for it any time soon.

- Art Kaldas



Just a note:

*The only basis for this claim is the Bible and there isn't a shred of archeological evidence to indicate hordes of Jewish slaves in ancient Egypt.
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01st March 2007 01:54 a.m.
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Yeah, I supposed they COULD have built those fancy pyramids using illegal immigrant Mexican day laborers, or perhaps Egyptians who had nothing better to do.

But I doubt it.
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01st March 2007 02:20 a.m.
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For South Carolina to apologize for slavery, SC would have to be sorry for it first.

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01st March 2007 02:42 a.m.
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For South Carolina to apologize for slavery, SC would have to be sorry for it first.

- wayward


I think a big thank you is in order. Without slavery (certainly an injustice) would this country be what it is today? I am opposed to slavery, even though we still practice it in a refined form today in this country.
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01st March 2007 16:31 p.m.
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The U.S. already made reparations for slavery. It was called The Civil War. Today only the lowest of the low would advocate such an immoral and barbaric practice as slavery.

Instead of continuing to beat ourselves with the whip of guilt for slavery, Americans should congratulate themselves for being the first in the world to eradicate this savage practice that, sadly enough, is still commonly seen throughout the undeveloped parts of the globe.
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01st March 2007 17:12 p.m.
wayward
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The U.S. already made reparations for slavery. It was called The Civil War. Today only the lowest of the low would advocate such an immoral and barbaric practice as slavery.

Instead of continuing to beat ourselves with the whip of guilt for slavery, Americans should congratulate themselves for being the first in the world to eradicate this savage practice that, sadly enough, is still commonly seen throughout the undeveloped parts of the globe.

- OneSmallVoice



Except that the US wasn't the first in the world to eradicate slavery.

The British Empire abolished slavery in 1833, thirty years before the Emancipation Proclamation and 32 years before the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act

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01st March 2007 17:35 p.m.
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I thinks SC should apologize for Slavery when...

All the other 12 of the original 13 states do, SC was not alone.

The US apoligizes for sending Sherman through the South in a 100 mile wide swarth burning, killing and raping civilians.

ALL blacks apoligize for raping white women. ALL blacks we not involved, any more than all Southerners owned slaves, but if blanket apologizies are required then let's ask for them all.

The Romans (Italians) apologize to all the Slavic countries of Europe for capturing their citizens - after all that is where the term SLAVE originated.

No I am not a racist and a hot-head, but slavery was abolished ~140 YEARS AGO AND NEITHER ME NOR ANYONE ALIVE TODAY HAVE EVER OWNED A SLAVE!

Get over it!
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01st March 2007 18:51 p.m.
justthinking
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For South Carolina to apologize for slavery, SC would have to be sorry for it first.

Wayward - A very sanctimonious and smartass comment!! Go back into your family history and you will most likely a slave owner or other person you consider of ill repute.

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01st March 2007 18:57 p.m.
blee1
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All of you sound like a bunch of bigots.
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01st March 2007 19:25 p.m.
a-venter
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BLee I have read your opinion on several issues, sometimes you get your point over in odd and unusual ways, but your last post, that I would not even quote, was totally uncalled for. I ask that you apologize for your statement and ask that it be removed from the blog.

Show me your a real man and make this right!

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01st March 2007 23:42 p.m.
art-kaldas
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A Venter,
I believe that BLee is visually challenged. He needs to see the eye doctor.
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02nd March 2007 00:11 a.m.
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02nd March 2007 11:31 a.m.
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02nd March 2007 15:00 p.m.
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02nd March 2007 20:54 p.m.
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Wayward your right the Brits did abolish slavery in 1833 in England, but not in any of their colonies. England was notorious for its treatment of native citizens of all of their colonies, including those in Australia, the Bahamas, China, the middle east, and of course Ireland. You cannot name a coutry that is now independent of England that did not shed a lot of blood getting independent or leading to independence from England. So lets not give the devil too much credit here.
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03rd March 2007 11:30 a.m.
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Egyptians owned a whole nation of Hebrew slaves thousands of years ago and they are not expected to apologize for it any time soon.

- Art Kaldas



Just a note:

*The only basis for this claim is the Bible and there isn't a shred of archeological evidence to indicate hordes of Jewish slaves in ancient Egypt.

- ahammett


I am a little behind on my blog reading here, but this surprised me. I don't have any evidence here to back me up but I'm pretty sure they did have slaves. Look at some of the things they accomplished, like the pyramids, that could not have been done without hordes of people and slaves seem like the obvious answer to where the hordes came from given the timing. I don't think it was a union job.
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03rd March 2007 12:45 p.m.
ahammett
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Egyptians owned a whole nation of Hebrew slaves thousands of years ago and they are not expected to apologize for it any time soon.

- Art Kaldas



Just a note:

*The only basis for this claim is the Bible and there isn't a shred of archeological evidence to indicate hordes of Jewish slaves in ancient Egypt.

- ahammett


I am a little behind on my blog reading here, but this surprised me. I don't have any evidence here to back me up but I'm pretty sure they did have slaves. Look at some of the things they accomplished, like the pyramids, that could not have been done without hordes of people and slaves seem like the obvious answer to where the hordes came from given the timing. I don't think it was a union job.

- blogger



They certainly could have had slaves, but there is no historical documentation to backup the Biblical account.
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03rd March 2007 13:20 p.m.
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First, to the no-apologizers:
Why not apologize? Who does it hurt to apologize? Nobody, that's who. It may not help anyone, either, but it's a nice thing to do.
Incidentally, Bill Clinton gave a nationwide apology for slavery.

Second, the issue of Hebrew slaves.
According to several history channel documentaries and a showtime documentary. There is NO evidence of Hebrew slaves being used to build the pyramids. There is copious archaeoligical evidence that the builders of the pyramids were just laborers from the Egyptian countryside. They apparently worked in 'shifts' of several months at a time, living in temporary worker cities.
To those who doubt the ability of bronze age people to lift such massive objects to build the immense pyramids, check this out.
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04th March 2007 19:28 p.m.
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