The Story of Cuba

“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.

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes

5 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes

The Blacks as Soldiers and in Caricatures--Preoccupation on Both Sides in Cuba with the United States--Habits of…

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes: Weyler

The Spaniards are equally facile in their accusing conversation, and with the list of offenses the Cubans charge upon them they return upon…

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes: Cuba

Those who have followed closely and intelligently such histories as are attainable of the course of events in Cuba, are informed that much…

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes: Cubans

Some of the newspaper men, in the days when they were occasionally permitted to pass the Spanish lines, made narrow escapes from robbers…

Leading Questions of Races and Crimes: Spaniards

It suits the Spaniards very well to say these men were rebel brigands, and it serves the Cubans a purpose in harmony with their passionate…

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