[geeks] I just saw...

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 05:13:35PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> How many lives would have been saved if it were possible? Granted, the
> vast majority of them were white, but they still count, don't they?

The irony of it all was there was movement twoards the government buying
the slaves, which would give their former owners money to hire them.

The U.K. did exactly that.

Geoff.
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