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> >Patrick Henry OWNED fifty six human beings. Anything a guy like that says
> >about how great freedom is and and how bad slavery is, is hypocracy. I
> >see no reason to praise a man just because he opposed England. After all,
> >Hitler opposed England. So too does Saddam Hussein.
Willis Carto in Popular Alienation: "Hitler offered to the British to assent to
their continued control of their overseas dominions and colonies and stated that
Germany had no designs on the African colonies taken away fron from it in the
Versailles Treaty. Hitler was anti-Communist and pro-Britain."
> Foregoing slave owning in a slave holding society like Virginia would
> perhaps be the most moral course, but treating slaves like employees and freeing
>
> them at your death would be a close 2nd or 3rd.
This is, of course, what George Washington did with his 200+ slaves. I remember
that while researching historical sources for Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, my
group discovered a reproduction of a lottery ticket purchased by Washington. How
many slaves does someone have to own before he stops playing the lottery?
> Foregoing owning slaves would not free any slaves or reduce the oppression of
> any slaves in Patrick Henry's time.
It would have been a bad business move. Henry, Washington, et. al., would have
jeopardized their ability to get credit had they voluntarily given up property
like that. Similar business rules govern the credit corporations that enslave so
many today.
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