Cuban Studies Institute

Former soldier in the Independence War, 1895-1898, who became the leader of the Agrupación Independiente de Color, and who, on May 20, 1912, led several bands of blacks in an

A Creole cattle farmer and lawyer, and leader in the Ten Years’ War.  For the first five years after 1868 he led the revolt in his native Camagüey, participated in

Cuban mulatto patriot and hero of the Independence War of 1895-1898.  Born near Santiago de Cuba, June 14, son of Marcos Maceo, a Venezuelan mulatto émigré, and a free Cuban

Physician and epidemiologist, discoverer of the mosquito vector of yellow fever.  Born in Camagüey on December 3rd, of a Scots father and a French Creole mother from Trinidad, he grew

Cuba’s greatest hero and most influential writer.  Revolutionary, poet, journalist, and the principal organizer of the Independence War of 1895-1898, he was the apostle of Cuba’s independence.  Born in Havana, January 28,

Havana-born philosopher, Father Varela studied at the Colegio y Seminario de San Carlos, where he became a priest and professor of philosophy as the protégé of Bishop Díaz de Espada.