In 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede — and even threatened to secede from the Confederacy because the other southern states refused to re-open the slave trade.Not to be topped.
Friday, September 11, 2009
A Factoid
From The NYT web log linked below (But we'll link it again, lazy sods!) the segment by Thomas F. Schaller.
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