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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, on District of Columbia Suffrage: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 16, 1866
But, Mr. President, there is another West India island upon which has been cast the fate ofthe negro, Cuba. Of which I will take some notice. We all know that Cuba continues to be a Spanish slave colony. Its area is about square miles. I will present a statement of its population and exports and imports for several different years: Whites. Slaves. Free. 1841. 1850 Exports Imports. 183? Total revenue. Sent to Spain.
It is thus seen how prosperous Cuba, a slave colony, has been, and how rapid the growth of that prosperity.
I have presented the case of San Domingo as a French slave colony, and as an independent negro island Jamaica as a British colony, first slave, and then with her negroes liberated and equal before the law and Cuba as always a slave colony; and the facts which I have brought forward need no argument to prove the great superiority of the slave over the free islands. This superiority of developement and condition was the result of the dominating mind and energies of the white race, and is proof of the inferiority of the negro.
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