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From: "Nancy Padron" <>
Subject: [CUBA] Re: CUBA-D Digest V01 #157
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:00:35 -0800
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Hello to all,

I have the same questions babout slave ship captains (I'm also
afro-cuban). Ideas anyone??

Nancy


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> Subject: Re: [CUBA] Fw: Sifontes/de la Torre
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:25:08 -0000
> From: "karen" <>
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> Hi. We're new to the list. I'm Karen Dolan (not a cuban). My husband, Ivan
> Sandrino, is an afro-cuban now living in the States. We have a son, Maceo
> Dolan-Sandrino. We're trying to trace a geneology. We've found only two
> references to a historical Sandrino anywhere on the net: a presumbably
> Italian Slave ship Captain who ran at least two trips from Western Africa to
> Havana (Dec 1824) and southern Cuba (1825). Any idea where we can get more
> information, anyone know anything about the custom of slaveship captains
> giving their surname to the Africans they kidnapped and sold as slaves in
> cuba?
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