Similarly, a plantation revolution in Cuba made it the largest supplier of sugar in the world by the 19th century. Even as the Latin American republics gradually did away with slavery after their ...

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 ...

A Trump-aligned company wins a pardon for labor violations in sugar production. Melissa Ditmore From the park closest to my ...

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 ...

Cuba's sugar production has fallen from a peak of 8 million tons in 1970 to just 1.2 million tons in the last harvest. The country was once the world's top sugar supplier.

Figure caption, Remnants of sugar production on Dominica, a former British colony in the Caribbean Another adverse affect of the slave trade was the damage to the Caribbean economies due to the ...

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 ...