(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION CUBA) Cimarrones Entregados a sus Du

Sale 2308 - Lot 75

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--CUBA.) Cimarrones Entregados a sus Duenos y Patrones (Runaways Returned to their Owners and Patrons.) Single small folio leaf, written on one side only, listing 16 persons, Asian and African; some light foxing. Signed by a magistrate at the bottom of the page dated. Matanzas, March 1, 1858

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This magistrate's document from the spring of 1858, shows how soon after their arrival in Cuba, Chinese bondsmen began to run away. The names of the sixteen persons on this statement are about evenly divided between "Asians" and Congolese, Mandingo etc. A series of three "Observations" at the foot of the page are worth noting: One remands a young "Morena Lucumi" (African) to the hospital, another sends a "Negra Pitrona" to the same hospital; while a third states that "the names of the runaways are the same names given upon arriving in jail on the first of March, 1858."