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wnylib

(21,146 posts)
5. Excellent. Should have thought
Sat Mar 6, 2021, 11:12 AM
Mar 2021

of that myself. I was thinking of single events so the single event in this case would have been preventing any one brought here as a slave. Or, more broadly, stopping the enslavement and sale of people at its source, when captains of merchant ships decided that human beings were merchandise to buy and sell.

Lincoln's Assassination snowybirdie Mar 2021 #1
Slavery in America. Hands down jimfields33 Mar 2021 #2
Excellent. Should have thought wnylib Mar 2021 #5
I often wonder if the African slave trade didn't exist... Yavin4 Mar 2021 #39
The elimination Miguelito Loveless Mar 2021 #3
nov 22 1963 rampartc Mar 2021 #4
Have you read Stephen King's book wnylib Mar 2021 #8
They made a mini-series of it on Hulu TexasBushwhacker Mar 2021 #26
Stopping the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2021 #6
Agree Ferryboat Mar 2021 #10
I agree with all of the above, but will contribute my own: Aristus Mar 2021 #7
Perhaps a 13 minute delay for Hitler and his entourage on November 8, 1939 Mike 03 Mar 2021 #9
Or Henry Tandey takes the shot in WWI. Angleae Mar 2021 #16
I don't have the wisdom to know the repercussions of any change I might make. Binkie The Clown Mar 2021 #11
You're right. None of us have wnylib Mar 2021 #17
That is one of the great insights one can get from therapy. Politicub Mar 2021 #22
Wasn't there a movie about that? Binkie The Clown Mar 2021 #23
It sounds like it would make for a good movie. It is often explored as one of Politicub Mar 2021 #24
Are you thinking of "The Butterfly Effect" with Ashton Kutcher? Behind the Aegis Mar 2021 #25
I actually haven't watched that one. Binkie The Clown Mar 2021 #29
Found it. This is the one I was thinking of. Binkie The Clown Mar 2021 #30
Star Trek Voyager -- Year of Hell hunter Mar 2021 #27
That was the theme of King's book, titled 11/22/63, wnylib Mar 2021 #33
Let's see - Butterfly Effect and A Sound of Thunder come to mind csziggy Mar 2021 #42
Make Columbus' sailors decent people with no STDs or smallpox cyclonefence Mar 2021 #12
Or, make the contact between Europe and the Americas wnylib Mar 2021 #20
I'd ensure that Theodore Roosevelt got the 1912 GOP Presidential nomination... First Speaker Mar 2021 #13
It think you vastly overstate American influence in 1914. The US was not considered a world... NNadir Mar 2021 #14
True that the US was not a world power yet. wnylib Mar 2021 #19
The powers at Versailles were not about to surrender their punitive approach to Germany... NNadir Mar 2021 #28
Why was Wilson so eager to get into wnylib Mar 2021 #31
I actually don't believe that Wilson was "itching" to get into the war. NNadir Mar 2021 #38
I have read some of Tuchmann's works, wnylib Mar 2021 #44
History ... H E R S T O R Y ... Henry VIII King of England DIES before he had Anne Boleyn beheaded Trueblue1968 Mar 2021 #41
I'd go back and destroy the wet markets responsible for COVID. Initech Mar 2021 #15
You'd have been better off... jmowreader Mar 2021 #35
Oh yeah I remember that from John Oliver a couple of weeks ago. Initech Mar 2021 #37
Kennedy Assassination. Fla Dem Mar 2021 #18
I wouldn't have sold the condo in Los Angeles 20 years ago. Politicub Mar 2021 #21
The most realistic goal expressed so far. Dagstead Bumwood Mar 2021 #34
LOL. mnhtnbb Mar 2021 #45
I can't bear to look anymore on Zillow :) Politicub Mar 2021 #46
Hillary beats the orange turd ironflange Mar 2021 #32
I would have gone back and gotten Palm Beach County, Fla., to do a ballot people could read jmowreader Mar 2021 #36
In 1970 James Brown hires Tower of Power Mr.Bill Mar 2021 #40
Lincoln having a security guard and he kills John Wilkes Booth ...before...any other shooting.. Stuart G Mar 2021 #43
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