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Excellant David! You get an "A" and should advance to the head of the class.

This thing called American style "freedom" is so unusual and rare in the history of the world that we who live under it today in the 21st Century have no other concept of what it is like to live without such freedom, and can not understand why people all over the world would not want to have it also. But that concept of Freedom was not fully formed in the mid 1800's.

Do I condeam my Grandfather for living by the standards of his time, and not by the standards of my life time? My answer would have to be, "NO". To condeam my Grandfather for the social practise of the 1800's of slavery, would be the same as condeaming the African-Americans ex-slaves decendents for their ancestors practising Cannibalism. Cannibalism, in my opinion, is a far great "violation" of "Civil Liberties" than slavery in the southern United States. But, you say that not every body participated in the practise of Cannibalism. Does not matter. Not every southerner participated in the practise of Slavery either. Yet all at condeamed.

If I say "Yes", then I would only condeam myself before the enlighten sencibilities and attitudes of my great-Grandchildren for our practises of today.

I wonder how many Christian Missionaries decendents are due reparations because their forefathers were eaten for lunch in the Congo? It hasn't been too many years ago that that culture was still practised.

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