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56. Yes, that's the piece I was thinking of.

Thu Jan 31, 2013, 01:01 PM

Jan 2013

I think Thom is off the map a bit on that. There is one historian that I know of that has been advancing this idea for some time, but it doesn't fit with the 'RKBA' picture nationwide, or even just colony-wide around the time of the ratification of the constitution.

But I have no doubt that it was used and found to be very convenient by those southern slaveholding states.

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