Re: Slavery,who was responsible?

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In article <vlsi_libD465y3.vy@netcom.com>,
Gerard Malecki <shankar@vlibs.com> wrote:
>In article <D441JB.GGo@nntpa.cb.att.com> gadfly@absinthe.ih.att.com. (Gadfly) writes:
>>
>>Slavery was not outlawed in Saudi Arabia until 1962. I believe the last
>>nation to outlaw slavery was Mauretania, sometime in the 1980s.
>
>Louisiana outlawed slavery this year.
>
>shankar

Asbury Park Press, Friday, Feb. 17, 1995 (yesterday)

Mississipi Senate OKs abolishment of slavery
Jackson, Miss : It only took 130 years, but the Mississipi Senate
finally voted to abolish slavery.......

[Of course, with the precedence of federal law over state law,
slavery was effectively abolished a long time ago....]

-arun gupta

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