Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
Ned SubletteEvery farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.
Ned SubletteThe general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.
Ned SubletteOne often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.
Ned Sublette