1. And before the French came, the warriors among the Moors were a nobility who kept black slaves. 2. Nullification also kept fugitive slaves from being sent back to the South, when juries refused to enforce fugitive-slave laws before the Civil War. 3. Nobody alive today kept slaves. 4. Only the characterization of Thomas Jefferson as a scoundrel who kept his slaves and seduced their women distinguishes this from some old schoolroom historical movie. 5. On the black side, there is no written material, because slave owners enforced ignorance and illiteracy as powerful tools to keep their slaves under control. 6. Robinson added that he does not hold living white Americans responsible for slavery, noting that none has legally kept slaves and most abhor that the practice ever existed. 7. Republicans charged that white Democrats had used threats and violence to keep freed slaves from voting for Republicans. 8. They subjugate weak races and keep slaves. 9. Churchmen openly accepted slavery and kept slaves themselves. 10. Ghana and Senegal will hold a meeting on castles along the West African coast where slaves were once kept before being shipped to Europe and America. |