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Re: How free were American slaves?

Perry, I imagine that both the slave and poor white weren't invited to dinner at the big house. What say you?

You may be right, Cump. But then somebody had to clean up. Could be the poor whites and blacks shared the duties. KP after all is an old an honorable profession that many people on htis board probably experienced the joy of while slaving for Uncle Sam.

But I am seeing a whistle past the graveyard kind of thing here that seems somewhat dismissive of how truly lousy it must have been to be a slave. Wasn't that great to be an ex-slave either, and some of those pictures can be seen too.

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