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The island of Cuba has been populated for around several thousand years by Amerindian peoples called the Taino and Ciboney. The Taino were known to be mostly farmers while the Ciboney were hunter-gatherers. The epithet Cuba in fact is derived from the Taino word cubanacan, which means "a central place”. Christopher Columbus sighted the island in the period of his foremost ocean trip of discovery on 24 October 1492, and immediately laid claim it for Spain.
Spain owned the island of Cuba for 388 years, governed by the governor of Havana. It had an economic base of grove farming and main exports of refined sugar, coffee bean and tobacco to European Community and later to North America. Brits conquered the island in 1762, but returned it to Spain the following year. Like most of the Spanish Empire, a small land-owning elect of settlers held all the social and economic force. They were helped by a population of small farmers, laborers and slaves.
Many architectural masterpieces manufactured during Spanish rule still stand today. An excellent illustration is the Catedral de San Cristobal, Havana. During the 1820s, when the rest of Spain’s empire in South America renegaded and seceeded, Cuba persisted loyal, although a few campaigned for independence. Partly because concerns of a slave rebellion (as had materialized in Haiti) if the Spanish pulled away, partly because the prosperity of Cuban colonists depended on their exportation trade to Europe, and partially because Cuba feared the heightening power of the United States more than they disliked Spanish colonial rule.
Due to the fact that Cuba is a slender 90 miles from the United States has had a profound influence on the countries maturation. Politicians in the south plotted the island’s annexation as a way of supporting the pro-slavery forces in the U.S. throughout the early 1900’s. In 1848 a pro-annexationist insurrection was foiled after several failed invasion atemps from Florida proved fruitless. After that the United States tried to buy Cuba from Spain but was always declined.
Rural impoverishment in Spain led to a substantial Spanish expatriation to Cuba. Among people inbound were the parents of Fidel Castro. During the 1890s pro-independence excitement revivified, fueled by bitterness of the restrictions brought down on Cuban trade by Spain and antagonism to Spain’s progressively tyrannous and unskilled administration of Cuba. On 15 July 1895 uprising erupted and the independence party, led by Tomas Estrada Palma and the poet Jose Marti, announced Cuba an independent republic. Marti was killed soon thereafter and has become Cuba’s unchallenged national hero.
This abbreviated paper can’t possibly address the huge chronicle that is Cuba. I have numbered several first-class books at the closing of this page. You can buy them all at Amazon or your local bookstall.
Cuba: A New History by Richard Gott
The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America Readers) by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
This is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives by Ben Corbett
Inside Cuba by Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez, Angelika Taschen, and Giani Bosso
