If you could have been born in any other year than the one you were born in, what year would that be and why?

Answer 1

1750. I would have loved to be a contemporary of Ben Franklin. I would've helped him figure out how to get the new country to abolish slavery at the Second Continental Congress.

At that time, chattel slavery of Africans was not a North-South issue. There were slaves throughout the colonies, so the sacrifice would have been more equitable, and therefore more likely. Additionally, Great Britain had already abolished it, providing a precedent from the country that the Founders most admired (even though they were at odds with King George and his Parliament).

There could have been a freedmen's solution state somewhere further West that would have probably been overturned later, but the basic premise of freedom for all men would have been set from the outset and therefore avoided the Civil War and the plight of many African-Americans to this very day.

Answer 2

I can't really say, so far as an era of time is what you appear to be interested in, based on the category you chose. I'm not inclined to actually want to live in the past, just to romanticize it. But I would pick Chinese Years of the Dragon if I had to; probably from 1976 and those earlier.

Answer 3

I would've liked to've been born in 1981 because I would've been able to go to a specific website.

Answer 4

i wouldve like to be born in the 50's so i coulve been a teen in the 60's

Answer 5

I'd've liked to've been born in '85.
1-it would make me over a decade younger; and
2-I never would've had to deal with LPs.

Answer 6

2007. I would like to see how the rest of the century turns out.

Answer 7

any time period as long as I lived on Turtle Island ( the United States of America ) so long as my life would have ended before the first European " invader " arrived.