However, to my surprise I realized that the “the dirty south” also includes South and North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, and Tennessee overall; not just Memphis.
The last country to abolish slavery (in the Western world) was Brazil. It abolished slavery in 1888, by the time that almost 4 million slaves were transported from Africa to Brazil. In the whole world, Mauritania was the last country to abolish slavery.
On September 22, 1950 President Truman expressed in a letter to the house of representatives his concern that the McCarran Act is "a mockery of the bill of rights" as it would seriously damage the intelligence operations and security in which several departments such as CIA, Department of Defense, and Department of State are responsible.
The Treaty of Paris granted the United States title to an extraordinarily vast expanse of land. Over the next seventy years, the United States expanded to the Pacific Ocean and acquired more than two million square miles of contiguous territory through land purchases, treaties, and war.
