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With slavery summarily wiped out over an extent of adjacent country equal to a dozen Cubas, it is natural that they should begin to look for their own day of jubilee.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid comments on the widespread desire for freedom among the people in Cuba following the abolition of slavery elsewhere.
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