Whether a rising of the Creoles, such as many of them now hope to bring about at some not very distant period, would or would not be successful, may admit of doubt; but it would seem that in either event, slavery in Cuba—the cruelest system of slavery now in existence—is henceforth doomed.
Reid reflects on the potential outcomes of a Creole uprising in Cuba and its implications for slavery.
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