“Yeah guys, the peasant communists who ended slavery in the mainland were definitely the Chinese equivalent of the American Confederacy.” - American ‘anti-capitalist’.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    At the time the Civil War ended, Puerto Rico was still a Spanish colony. So I’m not seeing how the Spanish Bourbons would’ve been cool with the Union just up and taking their colony as a consolation prize.