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02.23.17 Erlick, Carolyn, “Mission to Cuba,” Boston Globe Magazine, May 14, 2000.

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This article examines the involvement of the Boston family of Atkins (headed by Congressman Chester G. Atkins) in the sugar trade and slave plantations of Cuba, beginning in 1806 and continuing for two decades after emancipation in the U.S.

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