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![]() Steven P. McNicoll wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Ending slavery without a war was tried in the US and it failed. It worked elsewhere, it would have worked here eventually. Achieving Independence from Great Britain without War would have happened eventually too. Eventually wasn't soon enough--for either. -- FF |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... Achieving Independence from Great Britain without War would have happened eventually too. Not necessarily. |
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![]() Steven P. McNicoll wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Achieving Independence from Great Britain without War would have happened eventually too. Not necessarily. The US might instead have gone the route of Canada or Australia, New Zealand, or, hmm... The eventual, peaceful independence of the US would seem to have been at least as inevitable as the eventual, peaceful end of slavery, but neither would have come soon enough without war. -- FF |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... Steven P. McNicoll wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Achieving Independence from Great Britain without War would have happened eventually too. Not necessarily. The US might instead have gone the route of Canada or Australia, New Zealand, or, hmm... The eventual, peaceful independence of the US would seem to have been at least as inevitable as the eventual, peaceful end of slavery, but neither would have come soon enough without war. If the US had not have achieved independence when and as it did the Queen of England might, by now, rule the entire planet. |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... The US might instead have gone the route of Canada or Australia, New Zealand, or, hmm... The eventual, peaceful independence of the US would seem to have been at least as inevitable as the eventual, peaceful end of slavery, but neither would have come soon enough without war. Not to students of history. |
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![]() Steven P. McNicoll wrote: wrote in message oups.com... The US might instead have gone the route of Canada or Australia, New Zealand, or, hmm... The eventual, peaceful independence of the US would seem to have been at least as inevitable as the eventual, peaceful end of slavery, but neither would have come soon enough without war. Not to students of history. Not to some perhaps. Some students of history have soem pretty wacky ideas. -- FF |
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