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Originally Posted by Perikles
Some claim this is all a influence of Portuguese, others claim the return from South America of pre-war emmigrants, and others have less flattering explanations.
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Any thing but giving the
guanches their proper place in history.
As a historical note, emigration from the Canaries to America was banned from 1574 to 1718. From 1718 to 1778 the Canaries had to pay "el tributo de sangre" in order to sell or buy goods from America, that is, one family from the islands had to settle in America in order to allow a traffic of 20 tons of goods. It surprised everybody to know during Katrina that thousands of descendants of these settlers were evacuated from the Mississippi Delta.
In spite of these and other historical events, there was little interaction between Canary Islands and America.