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> The public mood is not there for those to pass in many countries

It will be once the next European war is over.

America wasn't as unified as it is now until after the Civil War and the subsequent passage of Constitutional amendments to fully and finally not only abolish slavery, but to make sure freed blacks would be full citizens, despite what the states formerly in a state of rebellion thought about it.




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