In a message dated 8/30/2002 4:20:01 PM Central Daylight Time, wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > This isn't my area of primary research; however, historians who study > slavery claim that what occurred in the US in the South is unprecedented in > cruelty. > > George Ann > A lot of historians claim a lot of things. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes. John Craven New Orleans