Portal:Cuba/Featured quote/Day 14

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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