[OT] American Slavery (was Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post")

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/29/08 03:55, Peter Tuhársky wrote:
> gregor herrmann  wrote / napísal(a):
>
> > Maybe you missed the "old enough" in Lisi's mail.
> > In Austria for example equal rights between man and woman in a
> > marriage exist only since 1975.
> > Cf. http://www.demokratiezentrum.org/media/pdf/info_familienrecht.pdf
>
> Well, I've heard, that formally, a slavery has been cancelled just 1994 
> in some states of USA.

Maybe some old Jim Crow[0] laws that hadn't been enforced in 20 
years.  Slavery, though, has been illegal since December 1865.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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