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Johnson wrote that America was the ideal place to live, agriculture and marketing were great; it was an overall a good place to live. What changed was that the society became more anti-slavery, in my opinion. Some people wanted to abolish slavery, but others fought against this because simply this was the way they earned their living and they started to defend slavery. This conflict between pro-slavery and antislavery individuals lead to the Civil war. Bellow, Thoreau, and DeToqueville would definitely react the same was to life we live now in the 21st century. DeToqueville wrote about “I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” This statement sums up what we do in

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