This way, the United States government could openly and legitimately send Cubans into factories and off to build railroads.
Of course, it was all the Austrians' fault! That's right, it was all the Austrian Empire's fault. If anyone wanted someone to hate, they could go hate the Austrian Empire.
Franz was not worried about this. After all, the Americans were the ones responsible for collecting it.
It would not be as easy as the Americans imagined to divert the flood of disaster elsewhere. After all, no normal person would hate the Austrian Empire ten thousand miles away; they would only hate those who had imposed the taxes on them.
A ceasefire, a withdrawal of troops, reparations, and a declaration recognizing Cuba as territory of the Austrian Empire. The entire conference was that simple and straightforward—so simple that even Daniel Webster found it hard to believe.
The Austrian Empire even allowed the United States and Spain to take away their own "citizens." Everything went so smoothly that it felt unreal. Twenty million dollars in reparations was no small sum, but it was at least within America's means, and the money could be passed on to the Cubans.
Daniel Webster thought that God must be blessing America.
Yet Daniel Webster's calculations soon fell through once again. The Austrian Empire did not recognize the black slaves on Cuba Island as Americans.
Of course Franz knew what the Americans were plotting. Black slaves were simply too marketable, too valuable in the United States. Even the leaders of the Northern abolitionists did not want to miss out on the four hundred thousand black slaves on Cuba Island.
In the United States at this time, an adult male black slave could fetch as much as 800 to 1,500 dollars. Some slaves with special skills could even