snow <snow@smoke.suba.com> writes:

The Limey Apologist said:

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At 1:51 PM -0600 4/4/97, null@myemail.net wrote: them as a sovereign nation that was the spark to the flame. Try reading "Lies my teacher told me" sometime. Given that the American revolution institutionalised slavery and

I think slavery was an institution long before the White Man came to the New World. If I remember correctly, slavery wasn't outlaws in england until long after the United States was a soverign contry.

A couple of weeks ago I and the family were in Washington DC and we dropped by the Museum of Natural History in the Mall. It's almost as cool at the Museum of Natural History in NYC. One of the things I noticed was a special "braining club" used by the Pacific North West indians. As some readers may know, PNW indians did not believe in accumulating wealth. Rather, they tried to build "reputation capital" (a la Timmy May) by conspiciously destroying wealth in ceremonies known as "potlatch". One indian would, say, publicly burn 10 sacks of grain. Another would try to outdo him by publicly burning 20 sacks of grain. (Somehow, this sounds like Cypherpunks.) Now, one of the ways indians showed off their wealth was by killing their slaves during the potlatches using this braining club. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps