That should be Robert Carter not Nicholas Carter.
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> wasn't much he could do about it. He could not have leggaly freed
> all of his slaves even if he wanted to. Even if it was legally to
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> everything he owned and he would have ended up in a debtors prison
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> what would you have done? Nicholas Carter was the only founder who
> owned vast numbers of slaves who ended up freeing all of them
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> his death but it was not easy for him to do so and it took him
years
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> --- In [email protected], "terry12622000" <cottondrop@>
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> > plus I don't like the fact that both of them were
> > slaveowners. I doubt if I would have wanted any slave
> > owner.
> > I don't know much about him but what about Smauel ADams?
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> > what about Ethan Allen? or Paul Revere?
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