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- From: dadams@cray.com (David Adams)
- Subject: Re: Founding Fathers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.114815.14335@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov18.212008.21608@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:48:15 CST
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- In article 21608@Princeton.EDU, glhewitt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gary Livingston Hewitt) writes:
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- |If you think about it, the US *did* lose a few colonies -- East & West
- |Florida, Nova Scotia, Canada, Quebec, not to mention the Caribbean. In
- |addition, slavery was legal in all of the 13 colonies in 1774 when the
- |"United States" came into existence with the meeting of the Continental
- |Congress and when these decisions would have had to have been made
- |(don't you just love that syntax -- 5 helping verbs!).
- |
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- What kind of a stake or interest did each of these colonies manifest
- in joining the union? It seems to me that there was some point where
- we tried to force part of Canada to join and got beaten badly. I
- could be wrong. I don't remember clearly.
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- --David C. Adams Statistician Cray Research Inc. dadams@cray.com
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