If you could eliminate one person from history...who would it be?

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166. Stop and think about that for a sec

First of all, you're only shaving about 30 years off of slavery in the US, since the British didn't completely eliminate it until the 1830s. And would that have even happened with the American south as an important part of the British empire? That might have affected some of their arguments/calculations about slavery. It certainly would have made it harder to give it up.

Not only that, but what would be the consequences for the British Empire were it able to marshal the resources and manpower in America into the subsequent centuries? You're talking hyperpower here, before anything existed as such. A Britain with America backing it up would have been much more formidable. Don't forget that the US generally stood AGAINST European colonialism for much of its history. That held true going into the Cold War, when the Americans were consistently annoyed with European attempts to hang on to colonies in the face of the Soviet alternative.