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RoinAnjou t1_iyir43d wrote

Reply to comment by qllv in TIL that the southern United States converted all 11,500+ miles of its railroads from broad gauge (5 ft/1.524 m) to nearly-standard gauge (4 ft 9 in/​1.448 m) in just 36 hours, starting on May 31, 1886 by 1859

The north- because you are stupid and do shit like enslave people and start wars when someone tries to take your slaves.

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qllv t1_iyirxti wrote

Y'ALL ARE JUST REVERSE RACISTS, YOU ONLY WANNA MAKE MY RAILROADS TAKE HORMONE BLOCKERS AND CUT OFF MY TRAIN'S DINGDONG BECAUSE YOU'RE AFRAID OF THE SUPERIOR WHITE RACE

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sgtkwol t1_iyiwmrd wrote

Can't tell if this is satire or not!

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el_cid_viscoso t1_iyjote5 wrote

It's actually flirting.

Oh no, what are you doing, step-Dixie?

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InfernalCorg t1_iyj0qxo wrote

> and start wars when someone tries to take your slaves. you lose an election in which the winner explicitly said he wasn't going to abolish slavery.

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Mindes13 t1_iyiux9z wrote

The enslaving bit was long before there was a united states .

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RollinDeepWithData t1_iyjzt39 wrote

The American colonization really innovated slavery though with chattel slavery.

Your comment is as braindead as saying “well there’s always been people, I don’t see the issue”

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cejmp t1_iykvz8g wrote

>In the fifteenth century, Portugal became the first European nation to take significant part in African slave trading. In 1580, the Spanish broke up the Portuguese slave trade monopoly by offering direct slave trading contracts to other European merchants. Known as the asiento system, the Dutch took advantage of these contracts to compete with the Portuguese and Spanish for direct access to African slave trading, and the British and French eventually followed. By the eighteenth century, when the trans-Atlantic slave trade reached its trafficking peak, the British (followed by the French and Portuguese) had become the largest carriers of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. The overwhelming majority of enslaved Africans went to plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean, and a smaller percentage went to North America and other parts of South and Central America.

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