Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry Seth, I meant to say about 400 years ago from now. sl > >> Market Place' right on the water in Annapolis. For about 400 years the >> slavers brought in their ships > > Hello Steve; please, I don't mean to be a wise guy and please, no one start a > war, or a flame, or even a new thread; but I'm a history person, for want of > a better term and I gotta get picky-picky. Please forgive. > > After 1861 with Federal ships blockading Confederate ports, ships weren't > entering Chespeake Bay with slaves; any ships running the blockade were > carrying war supplies, armaments, munitions and carrying out cotton, tobacco > and any other products with which the Confederacy paid for its imports. And > they were tending to go into Charleston SC or further south. Those 400 years > would take it back to what, > 1461? a bit before Cristoforo Colombo hit the western hemisphere. > > Pu-lease, no one beat up on me for this and let's drop it here. Unless I've > made an historical mistake. Which could be. > > With deep apologies in advance, > > Seth LaK 9 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html