Bits of Cuban History

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 […]

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

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 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

Steven Spielberg-directed film of 1997, named for the schooner of that name, which, on June 28, 1839, had left Havana to take 54 newly arrived slaves to Puerto Principe. Four