?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CUBA. Pair of printed telegrams, accomplished by hand regarding the smuggling of over 1600 slaves into Cuba. Two 4to leaves, written on versos only; creases where folded; a few stains, age darkened. Havana, 1861-1864
While the ban on the African slave trade was reasonably well-monitored by the British after 1807, the chaotic period of the Civil War in America presented the opportunity for the importation of slaves to the Caribbean. It is worth noting that the slaves transported to North America between 1783 and 1810 were not the "final victims" of the transatlantic slave trade. Not only did slavers continue to smuggle enslaved people into North America well after 1810, but slavers also carried another 2.3 million enslaved Africans to Cuba, Brazil, and other destinations through the 1860s.
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