Posted on 07/01/2019 8:42:34 AM PDT by Perseverando
Slavery existed in Cuba longer than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere, except Brazil.
Slaves were purchased from Africa where Arab Muslim slave traders had enslaved an estimated 180 million blacks over the 14 centuries of Islamic rule.
President James Buchanan wrote December 19, 1859:
"When a market for African slaves shall no longer be furnished in Cuba ... Christianity and civilization may gradually penetrate the existing gloom."
President Ulysses S. Grant stated, December 2, 1872:
"Slavery in Cuba is ... a terrible evil ...
It is greatly to be hoped that ... Spain will voluntarily adopt ... emancipation ... in sympathy with the other powers of the Christian and civilized world."
Cuban Independence movements were attempted in the 1820s and 1830s, but these were crushed by the Spanish monarchy.
On October 10, 1868, landowner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes freed his slaves and declared Cuba's independence from Spain.
Cubans drafted a "10th of October Manifesto," 1868:
"Rebelling against Spanish tyranny, we want to indicate to the world the reasons ...
Spain governs us with iron and blood; it imposes ... taxes at will; it deprives us of all political, civil and religious freedom;
it has put us under military watch in days of peace, arresting, exiling and executing, without being subject to any proceedings ...
it prohibits that we freely assemble ..."
The "10th of October Manifesto" continued:
"Spain loads us with hungry bureaucrats who live from our patrimony and consume the product of our work ...
So that we do not know our rights, it maintains us in the ignorance ...
It forces us to maintain a expensive army, whose unique use is to repress and to humiliate us ...
To the God of our consciousness we appealed, and to the good faith of the civilized
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Happy almost Independence Day!!
“All races were integrated in the U.S. Army until Democrat President Woodrow Wilson segregated blacks and whites in 1914.”
Really don’t like wilson.
Did he also do that with the Jews? I still can’t figure out why they are such strong supporters of the RATs.
One problem: pictures show the Rough Riders on horseback. Only TR had a horse. The rest had been left in Tampa.
The RRs took Kettle, poured fire into San Juan Hill, charged down Kettle then back up San Juan, which had been taken for the most part by the NY regiment a d the 10th Cavslry (Buffalo Soldiers) again on foot.
Actually, about 5-6 Roughriders, including BG Leonard Wood & 1LT Pershing had horses the day that they attacked Kettle Hill. = The few who did have horses acquired them, by various means, IN Cuba.
Yours, TMN78247
That is an interesting comment.
I thought Buffalo Soldiers served in segregated units like the 9th and 10th cavalry.
Well, that’s 5-6 out of 60 or so. Point is, they had to leave the horses in Tampa. And all officers were allowed to bring their horses.
TRUE.
Yours, TMN78247
That quote from the article jumped out at me too. There may have been exceptions and later Wilson issued the segregation orders.
The Army had segregated units - the Buffalo soldiers. You named two regiments. The Navy was roughly at one time about 25% integrated with black enlisted. (I’ve never read about any black naval officers from those times!)In the primarily wind, wood & spar Navy if you could climb aloft unfurl or unfurl sail in bad seas they we’re too picky about skin color.
Wilson ended that!
Wilson also ended blacks in the civil service. (I think I remember that right!)
Living in Tampa, Teddy Roosevelt is all over the place. They used Tampa to get to Cuba...
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