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    Slavery in Cuba was a portion of the larger Atlantic Slave Trade that primarily supported Spanish plantation owners engaged in the sugarcane trade. It...
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    War of Jenkin's Ear. In the mid-nineteenth century when most countries in the Americas reformed to disallow chattel slavery, Cuba and Puerto Rico – the...
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    that took place in Brazil, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Jamaica, and elsewhere. The following dramatic and documentary films featuring slavery are listed alphabetically...
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    abolition of the slave trade in its colonies in 1811 through the Spanish Constitution of Cádiz, slavery persisted in Cuba for the remainder of the century...
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    Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding...
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    Slavery in Spain can be traced to the Phoenician and Roman eras. In the 9th century the Muslim Moorish rulers and local Jewish merchants traded in Spanish...
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    successful. In the United States it was abolished in 1865 and in Cuba in 1886. The last country in the Americas to abolish slavery was Brazil, in 1888. The...
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    emancipation of slavery in the United States, African Americans sought to challenge slavery in other parts of the hemisphere notably Cuba, and were frustrated...
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    Captaincy General of Cuba (Spanish: Capitanía General de Cuba) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg...
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  • nationalism first established around the time of independence, Cuba has navigated the abolition of slavery, the suppression of black clubs and political parties...
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    New World colonies Slavery in the British and French Caribbean Slavery in Cuba Slavery in Brazil Slavery in Latin America Slavery in Canada Slaves were...
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  • Pact of Zanjón (category Peace treaties of Cuba)
    Maceo fled Cuba for Jamaica in May and hostilities concluded on May 28, 1878, but he had gained international fame for his stance on slavery. The Pact...
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    ended slavery in the United States in 1865. The system ended in Cuba and Brazil in the 1880s because it was no longer profitable for the owners. Slavery continued...
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    José Antonio Aponte (category Cuban human rights activists)
    of a plot to rebel against the Cuban government, free the slaves and uplift free blacks, and overthrow slavery in Cuba. The movement struck several sugar...
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    Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa in ancient times, as they were in...
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    commonly associated with slavery and social hierarchy in premodern Korea, existed in various forms and degrees from its origins in antiquity, over 2,000...
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    Cuba and the United States restored diplomatic relations on July 20, 2015, after relations had been severed in 1961 during the Cold War. U.S. diplomatic...
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    movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies...
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    living in Caracas wrote his Constitutional Project for the Island of Cuba. He reconciled his liberal political principles with slavery in Cuba, noting...
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    Annexation of Santo Domingo (category 1860s in the Dominican Republic)
    in his official messages. Grant speculated that the acquisition of Santo Domingo would help bring about the end of slavery in Cuba and elsewhere. In 1869...
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  • associations created in Cuba in the late 16th century based on the Spanish cofradías (guilds or fraternities) that were organized in Seville for the first...
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    Ten Years' War (category 1868 in Cuba)
    indentured workers and in anticipation of ending slavery. Before the 1870s, more than 125,000 were sent to Cuba. In May 1865, Cuban creole elites placed...
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    Slavery in Haiti began after the arrival of Christopher Columbus on the island in 1492 with the European colonists that followed from Portugal, Spain...
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    Ostend Manifesto (category Slavery in the United States)
    justifying the use of force to seize Cuba in the name of national security. It resulted from debates over slavery in the United States, manifest destiny...
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    leader in the Republican Party. He fought for the end of slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Scottron served as Chairman of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Committee...
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    Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation and until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of...
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    Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for thousands of years. When clove...
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  • history of slavery in Cuba. Paquette obtained his BA cum laude in 1973 from the Bowling Green State University, and his PhD with honors in 1982 from the...
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    Domingo. Slavery was not abolished in Cuba until 1886. Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, and slavery proper in 1833. France abolished slavery in its...
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    slavery in the Indian subcontinent is contested because it depends on the translations of terms such as dasa and dasyu. Greek writer Megasthenes, in his...
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