Portal:Cuba/Featured quote/Day 14
{{cquote|Here the chief urgency is negroes ... We pray license for each citizen to bring four Negroes and Negresses, free of all duty}}
Spanish settlers' urgent appeal to the authorities in Santiago de Cuba for more slaves, 1542.
Hubert H. S. Aimes: A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511 to 1868 p.11