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Vogon_Glory

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3. The issue of American-descended Brazilians is a Brazilian matter

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 17, 2023, 02:55 PM

Jul 2023

Last edited Mon Jul 17, 2023, 03:30 PM - Edit history (1)

I am not booking tickets for that guilt trip. Those people might look like white Southerners, they might have Southern white ancestors, but they are BRAZILIANS.

I do not excuse the participation of Americans in the international slave trade before 1865 and slavery prior to Juneteenth, but those Confederado folks packed their bags and became foreigners. It is now roughly 140 years since they left American soil. The Confederate emigres’ descendants in Brazil are Brazilians. It is their problem, for THEM to sort out.

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Archaeologists Discover Wreckage of Notorious Slave Ship Off Brazil [View all] Judi Lynn Jul 2023 OP

Brazil abolished slavery in 1888 Vogon_Glory Jul 2023 #1

US Americans were active in the slave trade elsewhere in this hemisphere, some after the Civil War. Judi Lynn Jul 2023 #2

The issue of American-descended Brazilians is a Brazilian matter Vogon_Glory Jul 2023 #3