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.

The Ancient Records of the Island

4 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

The Ancient Records of the Island

The Words in Spanish and Rendered in English with which Columbus Reports the Discovery of Cuba--The Words in which he Reported the Smoking…

The Ancient Records of the Island: Juana

Columbus saw for the first time the land of the island of Cuba in the afternoon of the 27th October, 1492, and on the following day, Sunday…

The Ancient Records of the Island: Columbus

On the 29th April, 1494, Columbus left La Espanola in order to visit the southern coast of Cuba, and two days afterwards arrived at the…

The Ancient Records of the Island: Indian

The words of Columbus and what the interpreter added in regard to the power and riches of the Castilian monarchy, made the old Indian to…

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