NJ Pine Barrens Maritime-Culture-Landscape 1 1 2024

NJ Pinelands National Reserve Free Cuba Filibusters
1870’s/1890’s/Pre Spanish American War
Cuban Freedom Fighters in Philadelphia would take a ferry across the
Delaware to catch a rail road to the Jersey Shore. In doing they
dodged Spanish spies and American maritime enforcement on the
Delaware. It is illegal in the United States to promote foreign wars. W
Cuba is was individuals fighting Spanish Cuban Overlords. Once on the
railroad filibusters headed out across the Pine Barrens by rail, w locked
boxcars and “banana strippers” (machetes) strapped to their backs.
Down to Tuckerton and Tuckahoe. Welcomed by locals w the
prevalent “throw Spain of Cuba” attitudes. Loaded into sailing
Cuban Filibusters in Cuba
schooners for transfer and loading off-shore of costal NJ into larger
vessels. Head South and invade and Free Cuba. Filibusters.
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