Word: free
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore, the sitting Vice President and Democratic heir apparent. And Bush is just getting started. On Friday, a top adviser confidently told TIME that the campaign's new fund-raising goal is $70 million by January--meaning that Bush will refuse federal matching funds and thereby be free from the state-by-state spending caps that mere mortal candidates must honor...
...That goes far beyond free speech," Vranesvich added...
There was no mention of abolitionism, except to say that "efforts to free the slaves began in the South; ironically, Gen. U.S. Grant was a slave owner while Gen. Robert E. Lee freed his slaves." The museum even implied that President Lincoln worded the Emancipation Proclamation so that his in-laws in Kentucky could legally keep their slaves...
...audio tour at the Rosedown Plantation in St. Francisville, La., mentioned the hundreds of slaves who lived and worked there, but insisted that the man who owned them was an opponent of slavery who had always wanted to free his slaves but was blocked by his neighbors. The tour was based on the oral testimony of dozens of white parents, children, aunts and employees, but no former slaves...
...That goes far beyond free speech," Vranesvich added...