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The island of Cuba has been occupied for more than several thousand years by Amerindian peoples known as the Taino and Ciboney. The Taino were known to be mostly farmers while the Ciboney were hunter-gatherers. The moniker Cuba in fact is derived from the Taino word cubanacan, which means "a central place”. Christopher Columbus sighted the island while on his most important voyage 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 agriculture and main exportations of sugar, java and tobacco to Europe and down the road to North America. British people appropriated the island in 1762, but delivered it to Spain the following year. Like most of the Spanish Empire, a small land-owning elect of settlers harboured all the social and economic power. They were helped by a population of small farmers, laborers and slaves.
Many architectural masterpieces built during Spanish rule still stand today. An first-class instance is the Catedral de San Cristobal, Havana. During the 1820s, when the rest of Spain’s conglomerate in South America rose up and seceeded, Cuba rested loyal, though some fought for independence. Partly because fears of a slave revolt (as had happened in Haiti) if the Spanish disengaged, partly because the prosperity of Cuban colonists depended on their exportation trade to Europe, and partially because Cuba feared the rising power of the United States more than they disliked Spanish colonial rule.
Due to the fact that Cuba is a slim 90 miles from the United States has had a fundamental influence on the lands development. Politicians in the south plotted the island’s annexation as a way of bolstering the pro-slavery forces in the U.S. throughout the early 1900’s. In 1848 a pro-annexationist uprising was defeated after a few failed invasion atemps from Florida turned up fruitless. After that the United States sought to buy Cuba from Spain but was universally turned down.
Rural poverty in Spain led to a major Spanish expatriation to Cuba. Among those arriving were the parents of Fidel Castro. During the 1890s pro-independence upheaval resuscitated, fueled by resentment of the limitations brought down on Cuban trade by Spain and hostility to Spain’s progressively tyrannous and fumbling administration of Cuba. On 15 July 1895 uprising broke out and the independence party, led by Tomas Estrada Palma and the poet Jose Marti, extolled Cuba an sovereign republic. Marti was killed shortly thereafter and has become Cuba’s undisputed national hero.
This brief paper can’t possibly address the immense story that is Cuba. I have listed various first-class books at the conclusion of this web 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
