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In 1893, from this staircase, José Martí, the Apostle of Cuban freedom, eloquently asked Cuban cigar workers who had emigrated here to help win their country's independence by providing men, weapons, and money. Many workers exchanged their tobacco cutting knife for a machete, and others donated hundreds of thousands of pesos to help save the people of Cuba from oppression and create the Republic of Cuba.
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