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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @soldan@rebel.ar why would we have more black people?
Our production was not slave-based, they were mostly in the cities. The slave trade basically stopped after 1810 because we were poor. After 1813, any newborn was free. Slave trade was banned in 1820, and any remaining slaves were freed in 1853. During that time, our foreign trade was with the UK, no slaves.
Comparing the census of 1810 and 1870, the black population is what you would expect in terms of life expectation. But, our population grew 10x, and even more later in the early 1900.
Our first president was a mulato, son of a freed black woman. There's a street with his name in every city. In that election, most male population voted, including black and indian people. You say whitening, we say browning, we are all brown. European, Turks, Arabs, Indian, Black, mixed together. There is racism, but it is way more complex than stupid SJW categories