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Honestly, they're not sending their best. They're criminals, they're rapists, they're slavers. And some, I assume, are good people (europe.pub)
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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

The Anglo-American Texian settlers also wanted to continue to own chattel slaves from Africa, but the central Mexican government was fixing to force abolition on the Mexican states. That was a big part of it in 1832.