Or that the 13th vice president of the United States was inaugurated on a sugar plantation in Matanzas, Cuba, surrounded by slaves? Or that defeated Confederate generals sought refuge on Cuban ...

It was the introduction of sugar slavery in the New World that changed ... as well as on the sugar islands of the West Indies — Cuba, Barbados and Jamaica, among others — countless indigenous ...

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 ...

Cuba's sugar production is on the brink of a historic low, threatening its rum industry. With only 200,000 metric tons ...

Cuba, historically a sugar powerhouse in the Caribbean, is seeing its raw sugar output fall to historic lows. The island’s ...

In this unorthodox manner, Cubans last week got the bad news. At 5,000,000 tons, this year’s sugar-cane harvest, on which Cuba depends almost exclusively for income, will be a full 1,000,000 ...

The slave ships were identified during Allen ... you had to risk these waters," Jenney said. The sugar plantations in Cuba were an especially dire destination for enslaved Africans.