On: George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?

[macintux]

Yes, if I had to mythologize someone from US history, it would absolutely be Lincoln. The re-integration of the South after the war probably would have gone dramatically differently had he not been assassinated, and who knows what long-term impact that might've had.

Heck, we might still be a liberal democracy.

[sverige → macintux]

Tragically, Lincoln made a liberal democracy out of a democratic republic. More tragically, Washington made a democratic republic out of a constitutional monarchy.

[oh_sigh → sverige]

Yup, poor America. Imagine what could have been, if only they remained under a king.

[sverige → oh_sigh]

Well, slavery would have ended 40 years earlier, among other things.

[paulddraper → sverige]

Not at all.

Slavery ended in the British Empire once Jamaica and Bardados became unimportant: trade competition with America, Industrial Revolution.

Slavery in America ended when economics of forced labor declined (but hastened 20 years by a civil war).