Led by sugar planter Carlos ... and formed the Republic of Cuba on October 10, 1868. By 1869, Cespedes had written a constitution that abolished slavery and annexed the country to the United ...

Black-marketers were annoyed by a general strike against them. But for U.S. housewives the news was sweet: Cuba’s biggest sugar crop since shortly after World War I (an estimated 5,800,000 tons ...

More than fifty sugar mills were in operation here at the industry’s peak in the 19th century, and in 1827 more than 11,000 slaves were working in the mills. A long, gradual decline in Cuba's sugar ...

Much of Cuba's industry was owned by US business and its main export, sugar, was controlled by the USA. In 1950s, Cuba was being led under the corrupt and oppressive military dictatorship of ...