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What Thomas DiLorenzo misses is that the other abolitions were either very limited as in the liberation of the serfs by Alexander II or far away from the metropolitan center of those nations - the French and British abolitions were of slavery in the West Indies.

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Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

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