*Por Néstor Carbonell Cortina (Resumen de la conferencia pronunciada en el Congreso Martiano celebrado en Nueva York, el 24 de mayo del 2003, bajo los auspicios del Centro Cultural Cubano que preside Iraida Iturralde). Me honra y me complace participar en este Congreso Martiano y compartir la tribuna con figuras destacadas de nuestra intelectualidad. La imagen de …
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 England and Wales by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in 1772 and …
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 nights later, led by Cinqué, these had mutinied, killing two crew members, and ordering the remaining three to sail to Africa. The sailors headed instead …
A royal license to participate in the African Slave Trade, given to any individual or group of any nationality, in the form of a contract to import a specified number of slaves in return for a royalty payment for each one sold, first issued in 1513, and widely available from 1514. In 1550 the asiento became the …
*Por: Vicente Morín Aguado El 10 de octubre de 1868 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes se alzó en armas contra el poder de España, leyendo una proclama ante un centenar de esclavos, liberados en el acto, junto a un puñado de seguidores, marcando un hito en la historia de la violencia como medio de los opositores …
By Paulina Zelitsky, P. Eng. * Despite an aggressive blackmail campaign by the Kremlin with threats to repeat the Caribbean crisis and start a nuclear war with the West, unless the West agrees immediately to the Kremlin’s demands on Ukraine and NATO, there were no credible reports of Russian submarine visiting either Cuba or Venezuela. …
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Charles V granted a rather baroque coat of arms to the new colony early in his reign. Cuba’s present arms date from the Ten Years’ War and they first occur on the insurgents’ $500 bonds of 1869. A lictor’s bundle of an axe and twelve rods (the Roman symbol of union and authority), crowned with …
Lawyer, anthropologist, historian, sociologist, outstanding ethnographer, author, publisher, and intellectual. Born in Havana of a Spanish father and Cuban mother, Ortiz grew up on Minorca, Spain, returning to Cuba in 1894. He studied at the University of Havana and at the Universidad Central of Madrid, where he received his doctorate of civil law in 1901, becoming …
Labor leader. Son of a Catalan bank employee from Guantánamo, he joined the Unión Revolucionaria Comunista in 1930, but later severed his communist affiliation to become secretary general of Joven Cuba in 1934. In 1938, he joined the Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Auténtico) and became prominent as a labor agitator. In 1948, he succeeded Lázaro Peña as secretary general of the Confederación de …
Lawyer. As president of the Cuban bar association, he supported the call for President Fulgencio Batista to step down in1956. He was also influential in the so-called Diálogo Cívico, intended to find a peaceful solution to the Cuban government crisis. Miró Cardona was forced to seek asylum in the Uruguayan Embassy in Havana in 1958, after …
