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Spider Jerusalem

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2. It probably didn't.

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Mon May 1, 2017, 11:08 PM

May 2017

And if it hadn't, the US Civil War wouldn't have happened (slavery in the British Empire was abolished in 1833) and the wholesale dispossession of Native Americans also probably wouldn't have happened (one of the grievances of colonists was that His Majesty's Government forbade them settling west of a line defined by treaty) and the colonies would have eventually gained independence anyway (cf Canada).

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