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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

and the African slaves through the region. In Cuba, the bread is still made in six rural provinces in the eastern and central ...