"D. Fry" wrote in message
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check your history Wayno it's not talked about but it is true. check
your
history and tell it to your children Go ask someone who really knows! you
will be surprised. only 25 percent of the people owned salves. and the
north had salves also.


Yeah, I've heard that too. And they used to ship it up from the south in a
big train that ran underground all the way from Alabama, where Eli Whitney
used to drink his cotton gin (which increased his productivity).

But when you say 25% of the people owned salves, are you counting the salves
as people? I mean, I've heard that 87% of all statistics are made up.

--riverman