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But as race slavery replaced servitude as the South's labor force, interracial sex threatened to blur the distinctions between white and black--and thus between free and slave.
Richard Lugar has threatened to make trouble for North Carolina Sen.
Justice Department officials indicated they would oppose threatened legal moves by González's angry relatives, who are hosting the boy in Miami.
"Back in February 1994, when NATO threatened to bomb the Bosnian Serbs, it was the appearance of Russian peacekeepers in the region that prevented the attack," it explained.
Thousands of Cubans have demonstrated, and Fidel Castro has threatened retribution if González is not returned to his father in Cuba.