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Why didn't the former enslaved Africans return back to their homelands after the abolition of slavery throughout the Americas?

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Why didn't the former enslaved Africans return back to their homelands after the abolition of slavery throughout the Americas?

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Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 19 days ago

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Beyond that i’ve never been really interested in the topic.

Me neither, but my aunt was interested, and records of Mayflower descendants have been aggressively tracked by WASPs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Society

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