tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post4543894508037413621..comments2023-03-24T12:24:36.008+01:00Comments on Contessa Isabella Vacani: THE PERPETUAL TRAGEDY AND FAITH OF HAITIContessa Isabella Vacanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16353575283269950315noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-78181692289635784862010-02-01T03:04:49.619+01:002010-02-01T03:04:49.619+01:00http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000917haiti...http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000917haiti2.asp -- <br /><br />See above link: for a wonderfuly inspiring look at the lives of the late Dr. William Larimer Mellon and wife Gwen, who founded the Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelle, Haiti -- which is doing God's work today, post-quake. <br /><br />On another note: although I haven't seen Al Jerezza or Chavez's Haitian reporting, the cable coverage here was pretty graphic.jarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16895952755225231011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-87087695729439608582010-01-29T07:35:52.077+01:002010-01-29T07:35:52.077+01:00"Everyone was involved in the slave trade.&qu..."Everyone was involved in the slave trade."<br /><br />Including the merchants of America's northern states, especially bloody New England. At least some of the Southern slaveowners, many of whom inherited them and were not able to emancipate them under strict manumission laws, treated them with basic decency. But the majority of American slave traders were Yankees.<br /><br />In this scene from "1776", at the 4:00 mark Mr Rutledge of South Carolina sings a blistering indictment of hypocritical Yankee slave traders:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXsXej9FloAJohn Ballnoreply@blogger.com