Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1884 — Freeing the Slave. [ARTICLE]

Freeing the Slave.

Although Cuba is within a few hunl dred miles of our Southern coast, verj| little is known about it in this couritryH It will surprise most people to learll that slavery is rapidly disappearinfl from that lovely island. Sixteen yearll ago a law was passed, providing for thfl gradual manumission of slaves in Cubajl of whom there were at that time 385,[1 355. This law has been so well carried I out that 285,000 slaves have already I been set free. In a few years more, oil that island, the “sun will not rise upoif I a master nor set upon a slave.”—Demjl orest's Monthly.