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jan 4, 1854 - Ostend Manifesto

Description:

- Failed US purchase of Cuba from Spain
- Suggested that US should take Cuba by force if Spain refused to sell it
- Abolitionists viewed it as a plot to extend slavery
- Southerners feared Cuba would become a free "Black republic" and so supported the manifesto

Added to timeline:

14 Apr 2018

Date:

jan 4, 1854
Now
~ 170 years ago