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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by cloudjacker on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:37PM (#12783142)
I found the economics of the Confederation extremely fascinating. Given the sanctions and unlikely future growth of the slavery sector, there wouldn't have even needed to be a land war and it would have collapsed in a few more years on its own.

Basically, the model of the union government's sanctions today.

Wish that perspective was in my primary education. I feel like I only learned about generals and battles.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by brightball on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:11AM (#12787617)
One of the things that's interesting is that there was also a complete economic panic in the North regarding what an independent south would do to the economy.
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