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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
I don't think many people would argue the Constitution didn't derive from the Magna Carta, and the effects of English history.
Did Africans from the ivory coast/liberia farm rice and cotton? I ask because I did not know that. Looking online, cotton and rice increased the slave trade due to the need for cheap labor not instructions on farming cotton per se.
Interesting reads on this topic include:
Slavery in America
and
Plantation System of the South: Information from Answers.com
All that said, your point of incorporating a lot of cultures (melting pot) is true but we didn't succeed as a country by setting up islands of nationalities (didn't work well in Czechoslovakia either), but by the individual nationalities submitting to an identity as a United States citizen. |
I for one, am stunned and impressed that the internet (and those who know how to use it) still find joethiesmanfan's (who i just realized, doesn't even have Thiesmann spelled correctly) statements falsifiable.
It's almost like a desperate attempt for the unproveable, only to later be disproven.