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Slavery in Cuba was a portion of the larger Atlantic slave trade that primarily supported Spanish plantation owners engaged in the sugarcane trade. It was practiced on the island of Cuba from the 16th century until it was abolished by Spanish royal decree on October 7, 1886.
Oct 19, 2021 · In October 1886, Cuba was the penultimate Latin American territory to abolish slavery. Brazil abolished slavery 2 years later in 1888. The hundreds of thousands of Africans and descendants subjected to bloody exploitation had been considered six years earlier included in the so-called Patronage Law, which apparently eradicated slavery although ...
Oct 17, 2022 · The end game for the slave ship Guerrero was at hand. When the Guerrero was chased to its watery grave off the Florida Keys, Cuba was still illegally pumping African labor into the island.
Between 1808 and 1820, when the legal trafficking of slaves in Cuba ceased, the Spanish flag sheltered many American slave trade expeditions and the networks between American and Cuban merchants as well as the West African factors were consolidated.
Oct 8, 2024 · In the 19th century Cuba imported more than 600,000 African slaves, most of whom arrived after 1820, the date that Spain and Great Britain had agreed would mark the end of slave trading in the Spanish colonies.
More than a million African slaves were brought to Cuba as part of the Middle Passage; Cuba did not end its participation in the slave trade until 1867. As the slaves outnumbered the European Cubans, many Cubans descended from these African slaves, perhaps as many as 65% of the population.
Although Britain and the U.S. abolished their slave trades in 1807 and 1808, and Britain pressured Spain into formally ending the trade to Cuba in the 1820s, Cuba remained one of the most common destinations for slave ships through the 1860s. Slavery itself was not abolished in Cuba until 1886.
