LAS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Valeriano Weyler, Jean-Pierre Boyer, José Núñez De Cáceres
20 Sep 2017
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Calls for equality and the emancipation of slaves and equality of criminal codes. Slaves were about 60% of the population of the island. This made white elites on the island nervous after hearing about the haitian revolution. The white elites tightened their control over cuba. Declared the republic of cuba on october 10, 1868. Pact of zanjon ended what became known as the ten years" war(1878) Cuba and puerto rico were very slow growing colonies. Cuba grew better due to being a more successful sugar plantation economy. U. s. had an established economic relationship with cuba. Making annexation to the u. s. not seem so strange. Carlos manuel de cespedes annexed cuba to the united states. At the same time the us had just finished the civil war, they pretty much ignored what was going on in cuba. Maximo gomez: wanted to burn the sugar plantations to destroy the spanish economy(just like the haitian revolution)
