History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1713 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cuba and Haiti's Shadow
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The idea
Spanish Cuba was the main object of American slaveholders in the eighteen fifties.
In practice
Annexationists arguing Cuba must be taken to prevent it going the route of Haiti, with enslaved people overthrowing their captors.
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They also feared British intervention, Britain having outlawed slavery in its colonies in eighteen thirty-three, which would have freed Cuba's enslaved people.
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