. Crisis. unprofitable speculationwhich ought to be abandoned without , too, a great many realized that it wasnot exactly right to the slave. So, with theexpenditure of a little oratory and noblood, such Negroes and Negroids as werenot themselves slaveholders, or at leastfreedmen, were emancipated without engen-dering the aftermath of animosities revivedin America by the Civil War. Thus, lessthan twenty-five years ago, the new Republicof Brazil, under Deodoro, a colored man,started with a heritage of Order and Progresssuch as no other American country had everknown, for, with the exc
. Crisis. unprofitable speculationwhich ought to be abandoned without , too, a great many realized that it wasnot exactly right to the slave. So, with theexpenditure of a little oratory and noblood, such Negroes and Negroids as werenot themselves slaveholders, or at leastfreedmen, were emancipated without engen-dering the aftermath of animosities revivedin America by the Civil War. Thus, lessthan twenty-five years ago, the new Republicof Brazil, under Deodoro, a colored man,started with a heritage of Order and Progresssuch as no other American country had everknown, for, with the exception of the longand costly war with Paraguay, monarchicalBrazil had enjoyed greater peace and amore orderly development than even theUnited States. As matters now stand, the Brazilianscould not draw the color line, for theywould not know where to begin. Theyknow that the early settlers seldom tookEuropean women with them. They pointwith pride to a tradition which surrounds GETTING OFF THE COLOR LINE 245.
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