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| “ | Here the chief urgency is negroes ... We pray license for each citizen to bring four Negroes and Negresses, free of all duty | ” |
Spanish settlers' urgent appeal to the authorities in Santiago de Cuba for more slaves, 1542.
Hubert H. S. Aimes: A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511 to 1868 p.11
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