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Unhappily, however, this baneful influence has thus far succeeded in defeating the efforts of all liberal-minded men in Spain to abolish slavery in Cuba, and in preventing the promised reform in that island.
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Grant expresses concern over the influence preventing the abolition of slavery in Cuba.
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