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History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest

CHAPTER VI
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Father Donovan has those words painted in large letters over the Sanctuary in St.Joseph's Church.

It is simply horrible to think that some self-styled Christian sectarians act as if Christ died for white men only.
Matanzas, Cuba, Jan.

20 .-- Not least among the problems of reconstruction in Cuba is the social and political status of the colored "man and brother." In Cuba the shade of a man's complexion has never been greatly considered, and one finds dusky Othellos in every walk of life.

The present dispute arose when a restaurant keeper from Alabama refused a seat at his public table to the mulatto Colonel of a Cuban regiment.

The Southerner was perfectly sincere in the declaration that he would see himself in a warmer climate than Cuba before he would insult his American guests "by seating a 'nigger' among them!" To the Colonel it was a novel and astonishing experience, and is of course deeply resented by all his kind in Cuba, where African blood may be found, in greater or less degree, in some of the richest and most influential families of the island.
COLORED BELLES THERE.
In Havana you need not be surprised to see Creole belles on the fashionable Prado--perhaps Cuban-Spanish.


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