If we all promise to stand outside buckingham and drunkenly beg to be taken back one at a time can we re-unite?
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Agreed. Assumption that British abolition course would've been same if America was still colony seems very flawed.
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If the British Empire really wanted to outlaw slavery in America, why did they lean slightly toward the CSA during the Civil War?
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Slavery enshrined in the Constitution because it was a central American institution not vice versa.
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reading "The Hemingses of Monticello" right now and saying "yep, yep" you're right!
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The British dealt with that in other parts of the Empire by paying off slave owners.
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We would have been better off as Baja Canada.
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That's the problem with counterfactuals.Who's to say that the money from cotton doesn't corrupt England and it extends abolition.
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I think some historians question whether US would have given up slavery earlier.
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Lots of other nations -- Haiti, Mexico, British colonies -- gave up slavery earlier. No reason to think USA couldn't.
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