http://gothamist.com/2008/07/04/another_reason_to_celebrate_the_fou.php All comments for Another Reason to Celebrate the Fourth en-us 2008 nyc_daveh Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:45:33 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss daveh@gothamist.com daveh@gothamist.com 60 http://gothamist.com/2008/07/04/another_reason_to_celebrate_the_fou.php#comment-1399948 http://gothamist.com/2008/07/04/another_reason_to_celebrate_the_fou.php#comment-1399948 Comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:13:40 -0500 <p>Unfortunately, a side effect of the emancipation deadline was that slaveholders had plenty of time to dispose of their "inventory" and many blacks with roots in NYC stretching back generations were sold to Southerners in a human fire sale. It was a disgraceful period.</p> http://gothamist.com/2008/07/04/another_reason_to_celebrate_the_fou.php#comment-1399946 http://gothamist.com/2008/07/04/another_reason_to_celebrate_the_fou.php#comment-1399946 Comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:04:57 -0500 <p>jesse helms is dead too.</p>