Posted on 05/27/2019 7:34:31 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
1862: USS Bienville captures the British blockade-runner Patras off Bulls Island, S.C. and USS Santiago de Cuba captures the schooner Lucy C. Holmes off Charleston.
Imagine how our history be different if we had remained part of the British Empire until 1833, when slavery was banned throughout the entire Empire...
You would think that our world would be much different. Maybe for the better.
No thanks.
Seems to have worked out OK for the Canadians, Aussies and the New Zealanders.
In the Commonwealth freedom is becoming a scarce commodity.
and its not here?
Correct, but here was not the connotation.
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