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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246958)	3/9/2014 11:37:52 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543134

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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246958)	3/9/2014 11:45:29 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543134

"Would you trade the 600K plus deaths attributed to the civil war (plus the economic ruin of the South and the rise of the KKK) for 15 years more of slavery? " When I do alternate history, I do Turtledove or Harrison. Harrison gets pretty cool; we conquer England in about 5 days. Harrison gets cooler later, or earlier, when he writes about the ongoing and further adventures of The Stainless Steel Rat Turtledove en.wikipedia.org Harrison en.wikipedia.org However, if I was a slave, hell yes I would.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246958)	3/9/2014 5:21:25 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543134

"Would you trade the 600K plus deaths attributed to the civil war (plus the economic ruin of the South and the rise of the KKK) for 15 years more of slavery? " Ask a black man. But, I wouldn't. The South was wrong in a most fundamental way, and deserved correction. It's why we regard Lincoln as a great president. It's why he's on Mt. Rushmore. The only thing I have trouble with is that the (D)'s were pro-slavery and the (R)'s were anti-slavery. We know the (D)'s evolved, but, do you ever ask yourself what happened to THAT Republican party? They seem to have devolved.