September 9, 1859 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, here are extracts of a speech by Davis, before the Democratic State Convention, in Mississippi, July 1859. The speech is statement…
Category: <span>Cuba</span>
January 1, 1858 Several articles tell of a continuing slave trade, focusing especially on Cuba, and also on the French trade.
June 24, 1853 A brief item indicates that “notwithstanding all the precautionary measures of the English and American government to suppress the slave trade, about thee thousand slaves from the…
Sept 26, 1845 Citizens of St. Clair County, Illinois, pass a resolution, unanimously adopted, urging the President to purchase Cuba, “with the consent of the white people thereof”. “The slaveholders…
January 19, 1844 A correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce writes from Havana with a deplorable account of the slave traffic: “There is no hope, at present, that…