In article <6uem23$9nk at panix.com>, davidc at panix.com (David B. Chorlian) wrote:
>In <y6u31xr16o.fsf at tweedledumb.cygnus.com> Craig Burley
<burley at tweedledumb.cygnus.com> writes:
>>>postmaster at 127.0.0.1 (Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin) writes:
>>>> The United States was, among industrialized nations, about the LAST to
>>> eliminate slavery.
>>>I don't have much knowledge about this, so: what nations were
>>considered industrialized at that time, and to what extent did
>>each undertake the sort of nation-wide building of vast
>>infrastructure that the USA undertook (and which apparently
>>contributed to its subsequent military might) over the next
>>150 years?
>>If we consider serfdom the European equivalent of slavery,
We should be making a grave error.
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