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[Brad DeLong]

>
>Too bad it too often exists on paper and in the mind rather than in 
>the flesh. Did "we" have a role in creating slavery, McCarthyism, or 
>imperial war? The good things you cite rose in opposition to the bad 
>things you slight.
>
>Doug

Well, as a descendant of some of the few slaveholders in colonial 
Maine, I am prepared to take a measure of historical responsibility 
for slavery, but I'm unwilling to say that I am part of a 
slavery-creating "we." It's a "they"--definitely a "they"...

Brad DeLong