Unless intelligent Cubans are greatly deceived, and, indeed, unless the keen-scented Spanish police are themselves at fault, many of the negroes are beginning to form secret societies among themselves, with a view to organization for a struggle for freedom.
This quote indicates the emergence of secret societies among negroes in Cuba, signaling a desire for freedom.
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