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Quote: Originally Posted by ole Wasn't it Col. Plum in the Library with a candlestick? One rainy afternoon, I helped my then seven or eight year old daughter and her friends set up the Clue board, an overly long task for little hands. In deference to my age, not wisdom, I was allowed to go first and gave almost the same answer as above. Turns out it was correct and the world's shortest Clue game was over, to tears, shouts of...

Quote: Originally Posted by prroh Not necessarily, Ole. I'd say it depends on the state's laws. Assessors from Virginia don't have any jurisdiction over property in Maryland. We know for a fact that Lee had his slaves with him in Baltimore AFTER 1847, so we know for a fact that the absence of slaves on tax rolls in Virginia for Lee after 1847 doesn't mean he didn't have slaves. Interesting points. So you are saying...

Don't keep us in suspense!

Thanks for that, Bobby. Interesting indeed. Ole

Quote: Originally Posted by matthew mckeon American slavery was based on race, and the racial justification of slavery, the superiority of the white, and the inferiority of the black... But that was not exclusive to America. Slavery of the European powers -1500s on- was based on race.

"Cheerleading" how so ?

Quote: Originally Posted by K Hale Then it seems twice as odd that manumission became trendy. Take a look at T. Stephen Whitman's , The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. Whitman notes the importance of "term slavery" in Baltimore. A system under which slaves were given a binding legal promise of manumissuon after serving a specfic further term of slavery. Supposedly term...

Quote: Originally Posted by prroh Was this the old slave who was in bad health and Lee took with him to the Savannah area in the hopes of improving his poor health? Sadly, this Phillip died despite Lee's good intentions. I am pretty sure that, if this is the same Phillip, he was owned by Lee's mother than passed onto one of Lee's siblings, so was not owned by Lee. Pat Good point Pat.

Quote: Originally Posted by matthew mckeon Ole,I really feel quite angry about this and I don't know why exactly. The smugness I guess. Matthew, I had read this article before and the same thing angered me, the absolute smugness of what the man wrote. I have argued with my Southern friends on this forum many times to be wary of "cheerleading" for EITHER side of the American Civil War. This article, IMO, was simply that,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Battalion Not sure of the purpose of this post. If you have more settlers you will have more improved lands. ................................Population.....Are a Tennessee....33%........1,109,801......42,169 sq mi Virginia.........37%........1,596,318......42,774 sq mi Georgia.........30%..........967,286......59,425 sq mi Alabama........33%..........954,201......52,419 sq mi...