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The US would not have been anywhere near as successful financially and its population size would probably only have been a fraction of what it is today.
by jongjong 4y ago
The US would not have been anywhere near as successful financially and its population size would probably only have been a fraction of what it is today.
- ericmay 4y agoYea maybe. Interesting to think about. Pros/cons.
- Larrikin 4y agoWould slavery have ended sooner or later if the British had won?
- 082349872349872 4y agoSooner, and perhaps more importantly, without all the violence. cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931615 (incidentally, I find the timing of the Monroe Doctrine slightly suspicious, coming as it does from a slave-holding President a few years after the Vienna Convention includes an agreement [as moral imperative] to abolish the slave trade)