The importance of immigrant workers in Cuba's sugar and tropical fruit industries between independence and revolution is examined. The later anti-immigrant sentiment is also examined. SUBJECT(S); Chronicles the economic and political factors responsible for the migration of nearly 200,000 Caribbean immigrants - from Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Grenada, Aruba, and Curacao - to Cuba in the 1920's and 1930's
The liberal pacts and hierarchies of rule that characterized the period during the Spanish-Cuban-Filipino-American War in 1898 are examined. The impending climax to the imperial transition in Cuba and Puerto Rico is discussed.;
The repressive measures implemented by Spanish authorities and conservative loyalists opposed to reformist and anticolonial forces in various regions of Cuba during the Ten Years' War are evaluated.;
Protectionism and resistance to abolitionism in Spain and the Antilles from 1854-1874 are discussed. After the demise of Antillean slavery in the 1880s, protectionists continued to demand Spanish preeminence in the colonial market.;
