Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1884

No. 339.
Mr. Foster to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Legation of the United States,
Madrid, December 29, 1883. (Received January 19, 1884.)

No. 132.]

Sir: As supplementary to my No. 121, of the 15th instant, in regard to slavery in Cuba, I desire to add, as an indication of the progress being made towards complete emancipation, that it appears from the official report just published that on the 6th ultimo there were in Cuba 99,566 “patrocinados” (the legal term applied to those still held in bondage). In the year 1868, before the Moret emancipation law was enacted, there were registered 385,356 slaves.

I am, &c.,

JOHN W. FOSTER.