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Richard Davey. Cuba Past and Present
Cuba Past and Present
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CUBA PAST AND PRESENT
CHAPTER I. The Island
CHAPTER II. Population
CHAPTER III. A Brief History of the Island
CHAPTER IV. The Beginnings of the Rebellion
CHAPTER V. THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION UP-TO-DATE
CHAPTER VI. Havana and the Havanese.[12]
CHAPTER VII. Matanzas
CHAPTER VIII. Cienfuegos
CHAPTER IX. Trinidad and Santiago de Cuba
CHAPTER X. Some Weird Stories
CHAPTER XI. Plantation Life
CHAPTER XII. An Isle of June—A Contrast
APPENDIX I. The Boyhood of Columbus
APPENDIX II. Notes on some Old Papers connected with the History of the West Indies
INDEX
FOOTNOTES:
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Richard Davey
Published by Good Press, 2019
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For three hundred years Cuba was exclusively inhabited by Spaniards, or people of Spanish descent. The political and religious conditions of the country were therefore far more favourable to peace and unity, and the island was much less difficult to govern, than in these troublous times of ours.
The "Cubanos" are the descendants of Spanish colonists, who have inhabited the island for at least two generations. The slightest admixture of African blood debars the enjoyment of this distinction. The first Spanish immigration into Cuba began very soon after the conquest of the island, and consisted mainly of adventurers who had accompanied the earlier expeditions, and who settled permanently in the country, after having returned to Spain, and transported their wives, and such members of their families as were ready to follow them, to their new homes. Almost all these individuals were either of Castilian or Andalusian origin. A few years later, emigrants began to come in from the Basque Provinces, and from Catalonia.
