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Re:The Tipping Point: How France Changed the Tides of the Am... by jongjong on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:57PM (#34144928)
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.
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Re:The Tipping Point: How France Changed the Tides of the Am... by Larrikin on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:25PM (#34145096)
Would slavery have ended sooner or later if the British had won?
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Re:The Tipping Point: How France Changed the Tides of the Am... by 082349872349872 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @01:39AM (#34145878)
Sooner, and perhaps more importantly, without all the violence.

cf 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)

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Re:The Tipping Point: How France Changed the Tides of the Am... by ericmay on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:13PM (#34145034)
Yea maybe. Interesting to think about. Pros/cons.
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