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\*Includes pictures \*Includes contemporary accounts written about the revolt on the ship \*Includes excerpts from the legal cases and arguments \*Includes a bibliography for further reading \*Includes a table of contents “25,000 slaves were brought into Cuba every year – with the wrongful compliance of, and personal profit by, Spanish officials." – Dr. Richard Madden "Now, the unfortunate Africans whose case is the subject of the present representation, have been thrown by accidental circumstances into the hands of the authorities of the United States Government whether these persons shall recover the freedom to which they are entitled, or whether they shall be reduced to slavery, in violation of known laws and contracts publicly passed, prohibiting the continuance of the African slave-trade by Spanish subjects.” – Henry Stephen Fox, British diplomat By the early 19th century, several European nations had banned slavery, but while the United States had banned the international slave trade, slavery was still legal in the country itself. As a result, there was still a strong financial motive for merchants and slave traders to attempt to bring slaves to the Western hemisphere, and a

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Charles River Editors

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Charles River Editors

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2014

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EN

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