A Transatlantic Slavery Narrative: Work Sketches of a Nineteenth-Century Bristolian-Cuban Sugar Cane Plantation and President Barack Obama’s “Black Speech” in Cuba

<p>After the Haitian Revolution in 1804, Cuba became the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its principal buyer. There was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and Bristol, Rhode Island, which supported an illegal slave trade for Bristolian-owned <em>ingenios...

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Main Author: Rafael Ocasio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pb2j6f1