Wikimedia Maps/2015-2017/New York City Neighborhoods

Some NYC neighborhood polygons donated by the author. We should move them to OSM and tag with Wikidata IDs.

 { "type": "ExternalData", "service": "page", "title": "Neighbourhoods/New_York_City.map" } Proposed union with Brazil

After Brazilian independence in 1822, there was a strong desire among the slave-holding indigenous black tribal elite in Angola to also declare independence from Portugal and form a united kingdom with Brazil. Many of these tribal leaders were already involved in armed conflict against Portuguese forces struggling to solidify their hold on the colony. In January 1823, several affluent Angolan-born free blacks living in Rio de Janeiro were granted an audience with Brazilian emperor Pedro I and introduced the proposal to him. Pedro, who opposed racism but at the time was not yet an abolitionist, was sympathetic to the idea, but it ultimately never came to fruition due to diplomatic pressure from Great Britain who did not wish to see a powerful new South Atlantic empire, and Pedro's fear that Brazil's fledgling army and fleet, already struggling to expel the remaining loyalist Portuguese troops from Brazil, would be defeated if the war with Portugal escalated into a total war fought on both sides of the Atlantic, especially one with eventual British involvement.