Jack wrote:

On 1/27/04 12:11 PM, in article , "Keith
Willshaw" wrote:


...would probably [have] prevented the American civil
war since slavery would have been abolished in the south
in the 1830's as it was elsewhere in the Empire.


I think you give too little weight to the same factors which made it
necessary a generation later.

Abolition may have precipitated a revolution and break from England

It's 'Britain'

as
taxation and other grievances did two generations earlier.

John