[norton]

"It's clearly an attempt to connect people of today to 140 years ago. It's fatuous and divisive."

Odd, it used to be called "history".
I seem to remember a quote about what happens to those who ignore "history"...must look that up.

[TheeOhioInfidel]

"Odd, it used to be called "history".
I seem to remember a quote about what happens to those who ignore "history"...must look that up."

I have a really silly historical question, since I'm not a learned student of history. Why is it that so many other countries were able to abolish slavery without resorting to a Civil war that took hundreds of thousands of lives? Wasn't there an economic way to abolish slavery, even if it took just a little bit longer? I'm sure someone has asked this before during the many heated Civil war debates, but I've never heard what the answer is.

[Ciexyz]

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