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Re: James T. Proctor, General Beauregard's nephew.

In the 1870's, he moves Fiji... http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2011/06/new-zealands-slaving-history.html

James T Proctor was typical of the ex-Confederates who shifted operations to the South Pacific in the late 1860s and early 1870s. A nephew of the famous Civil War general PGT Beauregard, Proctor lost one of his legs in a battle with the Yankees, and later lost all of the two hundred and twenty slaves who worked his Louisiana sugar plantation. These injuries did not stop him setting up a cotton plantation in Fiji and leading blackbirding raids on the New Hebrides.

In his book The White Pacific, the African American scholar Gerald Horne describes how Proctor and other ex-Confederates established a section of the Ku Klux Klan in Fiji and used the organization to terrorize indigenous Fijians and agitate for the American annexation of the islands. The Klan soon won the support not only of Americans but of the many Australian, New Zealand, and English settlers in Fiji.

Blackbirding was a way they enslaved local island people to work on the new cotton plantations...

He moves back to New Orleans and is buried there in I think 1900...

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