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Annexation by the United States - Cuban Studies Institute Six thousand American troops participated in the British occupation of Havana in 1762-3, but the island was exchanged for Florida at the peace treaty of 1763. The independent United Stated flirted with the idea of annexing Cuba from the time of Thomas Jefferson’s’ administration. In the 1840s an...

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On #NationalRumDay observing the links between Bacardi, Havana Club, and Cuban freedom - Cuban Studies Institute Originally published by Center for a Free Cuba To promote a peaceful transition to a Cuba that respects human rightsand political and economic freedoms On observing the links between Bacardi, Havana Club, and Cuban freedom August 16th is National Rum Day. It is not clear when it sta...

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Immigration - Cuban Studies Institute Indians reached pre-Columbian Cuba in three waves of settlers, followed by the arrival of the Caribs, whose settlement was aborted by the coming of the Spaniards. The initial Spanish population was soon depleted by emigration to new conquests, particularly Mexico. In the 17th and 18th centuries it w...

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EMIGRATION - Cuban Studies Institute Apart from the loss of much of its early population to the conquests of Mexico, the Spanish Main, and Florida, and the departure of occasional wealthy Cubans pursuing business opportunities in the United Sates, Cuba’s first population exodus was the movement of cigar workers to Tampa, Ocala, Jacks...

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MAINE, USS. - Cuban Studies Institute The battleship sent to Key West in 1898 as a symbol of a strong United States naval force ready to counter any anti-US conspiracies in Havana. With Spanish approval, it arrived in Havana on January 25, 1898, and, on the evening of February 19th, blew up in the harbor, killing 260 of the 355 crew …...

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INQUISITION - Cuban Studies Institute The royal Tribunal del Santo Oficio was established in Spain in 1478, independent of the Papal Inquisition, to preserve the purity of the Church. As the threat from Protestantism grew in Europe, the tribunal was brought to the New World (with a court covering the Caribbean set up in Cartagena de Ind...

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ENCOMIENDA - Cuban Studies Institute Spanish institution brought to the New World to deal with the Indians, groups of whom would be assigned to an encomendero entrusted with Christianizing them, with the right to their labor in return. Such Indians remained legally free, and no land title accompanied the grant. The system was much abus...

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Bull Fighting - Cuban Studies Institute The custom was brought to all Spain’s New World colonies, but its popularity suffered when Charles IV in 1805 tried to ban it (an act later annulled by his son Ferdinand VII). In the mid-19thcentury new bullrings were built in Havana (with a 10,000-seat capacity), Santiago, Puerto Principe, and Ma...

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Americans in Cuba - Cuban Studies Institute As early as 1818, Americans, as well as the British, were buying interests in Cuban sugar and establishing themselves as merchants on the island. The many who owned sugar plantations included William Stewart, owner of La Carolina, near Cienfuegos, and J.S. Baker, owner of San José plantation.  Thr...

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El José Martí que ahora mismo nos acecha - Cuban Studies Institute *Por: Vicente Morín Aguado. El 5 de marzo José Martí nos acecha, con un grillete, arrastrando una pesada bola de hierro, a la salida del tribunal monárquico que le condenó en 1870 a 6 años de prisión bajo trabajos forzados, por haber escrito una pequeña carta, dirigida a un compañero de cla...

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British Occupation - Cuban Studies Institute Spain sided with France against the United Kingdom in the Seven Years’ War. Britain declared war on Spain on January 4, 1762, and launched an Anglo-American expedition to capture Havana, the third largest city in the New World, and essential to Spanish transatlantic communications (and the supply ...

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ABOLITION OF SLAVERY - Cuban Studies Institute The international abolition movement originated in England in the late 1700s for a mixture of humanitarian concerns and economic reasons (such as the increasing British trade with Africa), and resentment of French and Spanish occupation of the larger Caribbean islands. Slavery was outlawed in Englan...