There is no evidence to suggest slavery would have been phased out. None whatever. It's bull**** and dishonest, and I think you know it. When you have to resort to dishonesty to prove your point, it isn't a point.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

And there is no evidence it wasn't.. Its called speculation. Everybody has an opinion.


But we have examples that Slave trade did end in other nations without war. It took time but it ended as the Industrial Revolution moved across the world. Thus bring in wage slavery.

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

The rest of the modern world did. I was not resorting to dishonesty. I was resorting to what the rest of much of the world did without war.

England was certainly able to end slavery without going to civil war: there's no reason why America would not have been able to accomplish the same thing.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."