[Calpernia]

You may be right about the intent of your comments. When reading a thread in message order it is hard to keep track of where each posters individual comments are coming from.

This thread went nuts with the blonde/blue eyed elite of S. America. I know there were slaves there. My family was taken from Italy to Argentine.

[cyborg]

I'm not surprised about the slavery thing actually. I read stories about the Romans cutting the hair off of blonde slaves to use for wigs. It's hard not to talk about the white elite in Latin America. Just turn on spanish television. It's amazing.

[after dark]

There were white slaves in this country also.There was an infamous case in New Orleans where a German orphan was sold into slavery.I wander how many of the quadroons and mulattoes were poor white people.Did the same thing happen in S.America ,or did slavers actually go to European countries and capture whites?