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Tag Archives: Cuba
Should the United State of America attempt to purchase Cuba from Spain and make Cuba another southern Slave State? The year was 1834 and this shocking question was the subject of a secret meeting in an obscure Belgian town. The American Southern States were the northern tip of the wide practice of slavery, which stretched Continue Reading »
June 26, 2020, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1834, American Adventure Library, American southern states, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Cuba, John Slidell, Kansas, Listen2Read, Louisiana, Missouri Compromise, Northern States, Ostend Belgium, Ostend Manifesto, Pierre Soule, Richard Henry Dana, slave state, slavery, Spain, sugar plantation, United States, William L. Marcy, “To Cuba and Back – A Vacation Voyage”, “Two Years Before the Mast”
If you or I were plantation slaves in Cuba in 1859, our value would have been set by law at $1,000 a person, which is equivalent to $28,316.68 in today’s US currency. This was a considerable investment by the plantation owner. A large plantation might have around 200 slaves, with a human value in Continue Reading »
December 8, 2016, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: abolitionist, American Adventure Library, American Civil War, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Barnes & Noble Nook, Castro, Cuba, Downpour.com Tune-in.com, Fugitive Slave Act, I-Tunes.com, Listen to Read, Master, Richard Henry Dana, Scribed.com, slave value, slavery, Spain, Spanish American War. Audible.com, Spanish Cuba, Sugar, Sugar Plantations, United States Congress, “To Cuba and Back”, “Two Years Before the Mast”
Edith Carow and Theodore Roosevelt were close childhood friends in New York City. As they grew from children into young adults, they attended both family and social events together. It appeared that the relationship might lead to something permanent, but when Theodore left home to enter Harvard University something changed in him. Soon after, he Continue Reading »
April 1, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1900 Presidential Election, Africa, Alice Hathaway, Alice Roosevelt, Andre Stojka, assassin, audiobook, Bright’s Disease, Charles Morris, Cinque Terre, Cuba, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edith Carow, England, France, Franz Joseph, Germany, Godello Palace, Governor State of New York, Grand Tour of Europe, Hanover Square, Harvard University, Hungary, Italy, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kermit Roosevelt, King of Italy, Liguria Coast, Listen to Read, London, Mittie Roosevelt, New York Assembly, River of Doubt, San Juan Hill, Sorbonne, Spezzia, St. George’s Church, The Kaiserine, Theodore Roosevelt, Through The Brazilian Wilderness, typhoid fever, William McKinley, “Battling for the Right”, “Bully Pulpit”, “Citizenship in a Republic”, “The Man in the Arena”
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