CUBA INSIGHT

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ABOLITIONISTS

Cuban sentiment in favor of the abolition of slavery first became significant in the 1850s.  Many of the larger planters came to realize the economic disadvantages of slavery at a time of increasing mechanization.  In the late 1840s and 1850s a number of Chinese and Yucatán Indians arrived in Cuba to work in the sugar fields and in building the railroads, providing a cheap, although still small, labor supply whose maintenance was less problematic than that of the slaves.  A significant number of white workers, many with the skills needed to operate the new machinery, also joined the labor force in the mills.  Finally, those seeking to overthrow Spanish power in Cuba looked to the Blacks as a strong and necessary ally in any attempt to liberate Cuba.

 

2 thoughts on “ABOLITIONISTS”

  1. Como se puede explicar que un centro de estudios sobre Cuba publique en su mayoria las cosas en inglés y no en español? ¿es que no se han enterado todavía que en Cuba se habla ESPAÑOL, y lo que se investiga y publica a los que mas les debe interesar es a los cubano, sobre todo a los de adentro?. ONLY SPANISH PLEASE.

  2. Como se puede explicar que un centro de estudios sobre Cuba publique, en su mayoría, las cosas en inglés y no en español? ¿es que no se han enterado todavía que en Cuba se habla ESPAÑOL, y lo que se investiga y publica a los que mas les debe interesar es a los cubano, sobre todo a los de adentro?. ONLY SPANISH PLEASE.

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