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Beginning of Slave Insurrections--David Turnbull's Pernicious Activities--O'Donnell the Despot--Roncali the Ridiculous--Causes of Slave Unrest--Story of One Uprising--Vacillating Course of the Government--Systematic Propaganda Among the Slaves--Some Serious Outbreaks--Savage Methods of Repression--A Reign of Torture and Slaughter--White Victims as Well as Black--An Appalling Record--Saco's Advocacy of Independence--Some Advocates of Annexation to the United States--Spain's Determination to Hold Cuba Fast.