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First Americans

FadedMullet

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9. Interesting. Black folk and Native Americans certainly weren't the only people mistreated when they came to.....

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Mon Jul 28, 2025, 01:38 AM

Jul 28

......this country. My own Slovene forebears, grandfather and uncle, came to the new world as indentured servants to work in Brazil on sugar cane plantations. Slavery was a better description of their situation and they escaped through the swamps to get out of it.

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