Jeni Kirby

“Blanco and Carballo of Havana, who owned the vessel, had correspondents in the United States: "at Baltimore, Messrs. Peter Harmony and Co., in New York, Robert Barry, Esq." 57 The slaver "Martha" of New York, captured by the "Perry," contained among her papers curious revelations of the guilt of persons in America who were little suspected.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“a new economic future was opened up to this land, and immediately the whole South began to extend its cotton culture, and more and more to throw its whole energy into this one staple.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“the American slave-trade finally came to be carried on principally by United States capital, in United States ships, officered by United States citizens, and under the United States flag.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

“The demand for land showed itself in the annexation of Texas, the conquest of Mexico, and the movement toward the acquisition of Cuba.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870