[DoodleDawg]

You didn't answer the question. If anything, you affirmed that none of those places were part of the United States.

They weren't...yet. A condition that the Confederacy was anxious to take care of.

[DiogenesLamp]

Whether that be true or not, it is another thing altogether to allege the United States should dictate the domestic conditions of other countries. Why would you suggest that the US should have a role in that?

And the reality of the time is we did nothing to stop slavery in the Caribbean and Brazil. Apparently our moral high horse only extended to those people who could be financial threats to the crony capitalist power structure still running the Capitol today.