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Thank you Granville Sharp and George Bancroft
1 posted on 10/10/2015 6:19:58 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica

This sure disrupts the narrative.


2 posted on 10/10/2015 6:23:01 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Yeah, and South Carolina wanted it in or they wouldn’t sign.


3 posted on 10/10/2015 6:26:49 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Fascinating historical tidbit.

Really makes you wonder how different things would be if the colonists decided to just skip the revolution and work an accomodation with the crown instead. It would have saved us 2 wars for certain and probably a third and fourth as well. Slavery would have ended well before it did.

And the key issue: are we actually all that much freer as a result? We have a Bill of Rights that is occasionally followed. And that’s something.


5 posted on 10/10/2015 6:31:26 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Elections are Job Fairs for sociopaths)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York vehemently opposed the importation of slaves because it was a significant part of their economy. Virginia and North Carolina wanted slavery out.
6 posted on 10/10/2015 6:40:06 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ProgressingAmerica

April Fools? :D


9 posted on 10/10/2015 11:50:32 AM PDT by Horkster ("Money will buy most anything in this country - even a Muslim Communist Presidency." - RoadTest)
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