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Collier Clarence Hornsby was an African-American filibuster who served in William Walker's Sonora expedition of 1853 and during the Filibuster War of 1856-1857. Hornsby and Julius DeBrissot accompanied Walker to Nicaragua in 1856, and Hornsby and another subaltern, Markham, consulted Walker before he condemned arsonists to death. He protested against Walker's reintroduction of slavery (applying to both blacks and Native Americans), which Walker had done in order to provide the country with more money (which it had lost since Walker betrayed Cornelius Vanderbilt), reading his journal entry on the First Battle of Rivas to point out how blacks and whites had fought alongside each other to achieve Walker's victories.

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