“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.
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1896Published
Murat HalsteadAuthor
30Chapters
237Pages on this site
Murat Halstead was among the best-known American journalists of his day, and he wrote The Story of Cuba in 1896 with the island in revolt and the United States two years from war with Spain.
He begins with the conquest and the destruction of the native population, works through the sugar economy and slavery, the Ten Years’ War and the Treaty of Zanjón, and arrives at the reconcentration policy that turned American opinion.
This digital edition presents the complete keyed text of the 1896 edition, chapter by chapter.
This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1896 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.