Crackpot Lawyers With Itchy Ears
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The History of the United States
The United States survived starting in 1774 with the first Continental Congress that survived because of these fears of disunion in civil war. Could we have had a much earlier abolition of slavery if they didn't stay in this shotgun wedding and make these horrible compromise to perpetuate slavery fascinating question mm-hmm I mean you what you'd have to do is to weigh all the good of America being this democracy against all the bad of being the country that de facto perpetuated slavery longer than any others though actually the Dutch allowed it ten years after we did in their colonies.
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