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10-28-2005, 02:49 AM
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Re: A Good Read For You Brits
Rough Crossings by Simon Scharma, about the slave trade, absolutely riveting could not put it down, on Lon's theme of the War of Independance I was fascinated t learn thet huge numbers of slaves escaped and fought for the Brits as they saw them as the way to freedom, as opposed to fighting for the writers of the Declaration who had written "All men are created equal"
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11-01-2005, 06:35 PM
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Re: A Good Read For You Brits
I must check that out, Schama is an intersting author. If you havn't already may I suggest you try "The Isles" by Norman Davies, its an excellent, unbiased (well a little bit as he is Welsh) one volume history of our bit of the world.
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