but, to talk about another skunk for a moment, william walker, who was what was called filibuster, nothing do with the senatorial maneuver but at the time referred to kind of a freebooter, somebody would go down and try to take over a country and there is quite of a rash in the 40's and '50's. americans to decided to go down with a handful of mercenaries and maybe start fighting in a civil war in the latin american countrymen tried to take it over. this was considered a great thing by kind of southern and confederate leaning individuals who thought that this would be a natural feel to expand slavery. >> especially in the case of cuba, which after the fall of the spanish empire in latin america, of course cuba remained the czar, the jewel of the spanish overseas possessions and there is large-scale slavery there already, and there were a lot of cubans were fighting very hard for independence as well, and there was also the large cuban population in new york, which my classmate alexandro perez is writing about. and come iq but especially, the southerners are looking to expand slavery, but wa