Letters From the Havana, During the Year 1820

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Excerpt from Letters From the Havana, During the Year 1820: Containing an Account of the Present State of the Island of Cuba, and Observations on the Slave Trade It is from the year 1778 (when one end of the chain which girt the island was loosened and com merce allowed to go the length of its links) that the history of Cuba essentially begins: the narrative of its infancy can only interest its natural relatives. Since the above mentioned year the germs of pro perity, with which it abounds, have begun to vegetate, but during the last eleven years the harvest has been ripening. Since that period the principal ports of the island have enjoyed a free commerce, and the effects of this the following details will exemplify. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.