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The Talk Is Starting Again: Trump Was Angry and 'Unglued' When He Started a Trade War, Officials Say

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Blind Frog Belly White3/02/2018 6:54:39 pm PST

re: #228 Decatur Deb

It’s hard to imagine slavery persisting another generation in the face of technology and developing humanism throughout the “first” world—America would have been a pariah nation. It was replaced first by attempts at quasi-slavery, tying former slaves to the same end of hoe, enforced by both violence and the new economic whip. With mobility, a flow of skilled freemen left the South for the North and West, making it’s repair, growth and industrialization even slower. An influx of educators and investment did occur, and that would also have been slowed if terror and military counter-terror had increased lawlessness in the occupied states. We are still seeing deep resentment of the North, often cloaked as the rural/urban split. Taking Thaddeus Steven’s approach would have made it bloodier, longer, and the South would persist as a Northern colony. Some around here think it is.

I’m not so sure this is true. Remember, this was the age of colonies throughout Afrca and Asia, where conditions for the colonized were little - if any-better. Remember also that for the rest of the 19th Century we pursued a genocide against the Native Americans without becoming pariahs.