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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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[-] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 month ago

The colonizers deliberately did everything they could to make that impossible. Besides they weren't going to let free labor just go away like that, they needed to continue to exploit us.

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