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Originally Posted by Bill14564
The commonly accepted number is more like 250,000. (but hey, what's two orders of magnitude when you have a point to make)
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Originally Posted by Byte1
Sorry, what was your point?  |
Simply as stated, my point was that there were not 2,000 slaves freed in TX but more like 250,000.
If you want to read more into it then my point is that declaring the freedom of 250,000 humans over two years after they were supposed to have been freed means more than nothing to nobody.
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