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PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. Every time some idiot thinks that slavery just wasn't that bad,
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 04:29 PM
Aug 2016

or that slaves had a better life here than they had in Africa, I start wondering what this country would be like today if instead of bringing Africans here as slaves, they'd immigrated voluntarily, as Europeans did. Well, more or less voluntarily since often Europeans were reluctantly leaving because of war or economic conditions or some such.

But I wish someone much smarter than I am would write an alternate history in which the slave trade never happened.

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