American Interest in Cuba: 1848-1855Columbia University Press, 1948 - 323 pages |
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... slavery was emerging as the most divisive issue in American politics , the question of slavery in Cuba became at least as important as strategic and commercial problems in creating a climax of American interest in the island from 1848 ...
... slavery was emerging as the most divisive issue in American politics , the question of slavery in Cuba became at least as important as strategic and commercial problems in creating a climax of American interest in the island from 1848 ...
Page 38
... slavery . Local spon- taneous uprisings of slaves occurred in various districts in 1832 , 1835 , 1836 , 1837 and 1840. The Negro government of nearby Haiti was considered a standing incitement to the Negroes of Cuba , and the ...
... slavery . Local spon- taneous uprisings of slaves occurred in various districts in 1832 , 1835 , 1836 , 1837 and 1840. The Negro government of nearby Haiti was considered a standing incitement to the Negroes of Cuba , and the ...
Page 211
... slavery except as he was willing and even anxious to strengthen slavery and the South in order to satisfy that section and put the slavery issue at rest . The moral obtuseness of the appeaser but not the plot of a friend of slavery is ...
... slavery except as he was willing and even anxious to strengthen slavery and the South in order to satisfy that section and put the slavery issue at rest . The moral obtuseness of the appeaser but not the plot of a friend of slavery is ...
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