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The get good at is a policeman and a judge. His revolver and rife are always filled. He has his pet dogs, his trackers, and seizers. No man rides unarmed. Be a part of abolitionist Richard Henry Dana as he explores Spanish Cuba in 1859, where kidnapped dark-colored Africans were slaves on great sugars plantations along with impoverished Chinese coolies hurting under unbreakable eight-year contracts. Dana frequented Cuba on the fact-finding quest he calls a holiday voyage. He describes Cuban slavery; explores Cuban contemporary society, organizations, and educational systems; and exposes a corrupt jail system, where in fact the more a prisoner will pay, the less he is punished. In 1859, slavery was still legal in america and flourished throughout the Southern Areas. Due to Cuba's close proximity to the United States, some slaveholders experienced maybe it's a natural expansion of the American southern slave says. A few years before, the Ostend Manifesto was proposed, under which American slave says attempted to have the United States purchase Cuba from Spain for $30 million us dollars. Their idea was to broaden slavery to beyond the boundary of the united states. The plan was not successful. So when Dana had taken his holiday, he was well aware that Cuba was a place where USA interests attempted to maintain slavery and that he was stepping into territory with slave tactics that were abhorrent to him. Senator John Slidell launched another attempt to annex Cuba to the United States for $30 million. It had been being debated in Congress at that time Dana was cruising. As Dana later recounted in his narrative, the attempt to purchase of Cuba by the United States failed. In November, a season later, Abraham Lincoln was elected leader of the United States, and one year from then on, the American civil warfare began. The warfare resulted in the finish of slavery in america...but not in Cuba, which was still owned or operated by Spain.
