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(Cuba - Slavery) Printed decree of the provisional rebel government in Camagüey, Cuba, announcing the abolition of slavery in Cuba Place Published: Camagüey, Cuba Date Published: February 26, 1869 Description: Single sheet printed on recto only, docketed in ink on reverse. 21.5x14.4 cm (8½x5¾"). Rare decree promulgating the abolition of slavery in Cuba at the time of the first Cuban revolution led by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. The revolution was to fail, and the practice of slavery was to continue until 1886, but this fragile half-sheet of paper is a revealing document in the struggle. It begins "La institucion de la esclavitad, traida à Cuba por la dominacion española... Queda abolica la esclavitud..." (The institution of slavery, brought to Cuba by Spanish domination... Slavery is abolished). Signed in type at the end by Salvador Cisneroa Betancourt, Eduardo Agramonte, Ignacio Agramonte Loyuáz, Francisco Sanchez y Betancourt, and Antonio Zambraua. Docketed in ink on the reverse, "Asamblea, Decreto de Abolicion, Febrero 26/869." Condition: Old folds with some splitting, a few neat repairs, chips at right edge; very good overall, a fragile document. Item#: 357545 Headline: Rebel decree abolishing slavery in Cuba 1869