LRT Keep in mind that in Paraguay, whites couldn't marry whites, only Indians or blacks. And that Paraguay has been written out of history.
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The founding of Paraguay is one of the few truly revolutionary stories in the Americas. That's why you've never heard of it.
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Paraguay legalized sex work, which was mostly done by indigenous women, around 1815. There's a reason you don't know where it is on a map.
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Paraguay took black Uruguayan independence fighters who were denied citizenship there and have them a land we call Camba-cue, or Black Land.
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Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay all but destroyed Paraguay after 50 years of this. Couldn't have all that love for Indians and black people.
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This is what happens when you create a nation state that assumes that black people are human: its story is made invisible.
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