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Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 12 days
Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
Avatar Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12 days
These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee
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Denise DeGrazia @rddegrazia.bsky.social · 11 days
That's because Lincoln was dead and Andrew Johnson (a Southerner) was not partial to the idea. Jefferson Davis escaped the rope. Hope this link helps explain the FU of the ages: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tria...
The Trial of the Century That Wasn'twww.smithsonianmag.com The case against Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, would have been a legal showdown of the ages
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Denise DeGrazia @rddegrazia.bsky.social · 11 days
Also many ex confederates were lured to Brazil (a slaveowners paradise) www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_am...
They lost the Civil War and fled to Brazil. Their descendants refuse to take down the Confederate flag.www.washingtonpost.com Brazil’s confederados gather in Sao Paulo state each year to celebrate all things Dixie. As in the United States, calls are growing for a reassessment.
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Denise DeGrazia @rddegrazia.bsky.social · 11 days
Brazil did not free its slaves until 1888. One of last countries in the Americas to do so. Jesus, even Mexico was ahead of us. They freed their slaves in 1837. www.npr.org/2021/02/28/9...
A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexicowww.npr.org As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.
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Denise DeGrazia @rddegrazia.bsky.social · 11 days
Brazil is multicultural but very much a stratified society. The white wealthy people are at the top and the black and indigenous are below. People need to know that racism and inequality is not just in the US but exists in other countries in the Americas.