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Why didn't the former enslaved Africans return back to their homelands after the abolition of slavery throughout the Americas? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[-] FreedomBurgerInt@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago

It was too expensive, there was a huge language barrier, and the quality of life wouldn't have been been better in most cases.

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