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5,800 PERSOivS exiled from west indie: ARRIVED IN NEW ORLEANS May to July 1809
"The Great Mail - a Postal History of New Orleans"
by Leonard V. Huber & Clarence A. Wagner - 19*+9
-	American Philatelic Society, Inc.
t>. 121 footnote
Within 60 days, between May and July 1809, 3^ vessels from Cuba set ashore in the streets of New Orleans nearly 5> 800 persons, whites, free mulattoes and black slaves in equal numbers—exiles from the West Indies seeking a new home in the United States.
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