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So something like telling the Confeds that the rest of the world wouldn't buy slave-picked cotton?

That might work. Of course, it would also have presented rather serious issues for Britain and France given their... less than savoury behaviour in their colonies.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Mar 13th, 2009 at 11:27:42 AM EST
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