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Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by jordanpg on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:06PM (#21826894)
Maybe "the sovereignty of your country" is an obsolete concept that we inherited from the Middle Ages that should go away.
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Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by scarmig on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:12PM (#21826966)
The Middle Ages didn't have anything like borders in our contemporary sense. It's a modern invention that only came into full form in the 20th century.
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