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Topic	Rhode Island set to shorten it's name due to history with slavery
Statical_Ork 06/24/20 7:58:41 PM #86:	This has been making the rounds locally for a few years now but has largely failed to pick up steam, glad its finally happening, even if its just a hopeless attempt at our wildly unpopular corporate hack governor to score brownie points. ZT6 posted... What exactly is the history of slavery in this case? The word plantation? The word plantation, albeit not inherently tied to slavery, takes on unsavory connotations when all 10 of the 10 biggest slave traders in US history are from the state. --- butthole666 <cite>Statical_Ork posted [p:941207159] in Rhode Isla... [t:78799354]...</cite> <quote>This has been making the rounds locally for a few years now but has largely failed to pick up steam, glad its finally happening, even if its just a hopeless attempt at our wildly unpopular corporate hack governor to score brownie points. ZT6 posted... </cite> <quote>What exactly is the history of slavery in this case? The word plantation?</quote>The word plantation, albeit not inherently tied to slavery, takes on unsavory connotations when all 10 of the 10 biggest slave traders in US history are from the state. --- butthole666</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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