May 28, 2007
ISSUE# LXVII
Laird W. Bergad is the founding director of the City University of New York’s Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies.
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Arrival of African slaves
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The Spanish established sugar and tobacco as Cuba's primary products, and the island soon supplanted Hispaniola as the prime Spanish base in the Caribbean.[13] The expansion of agriculture tempered by the rapid erosion of the native populations[citation needed] meant that further field labor was required. African slaves were then imported to work the plantations as field labor.….....(Read More )
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