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 Cause of Cuba

8 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

The Cause of Cuba

Cuba is Governed by Spain for Spain--Cubans are Taxed to Protect Spain--Impolicy Prepared for Revolution--Rebellion Forced by…

The Cause of Cuba: Island

Defenses have been offered for the systems of taxation that have prevailed from time to time. Not one of them ever fulfilled the conditions…

The Cause of Cuba: Spanish

The corrupt Spanish custom-houses take toll both ways and that the opportunities to discriminate against honest men--those who would not…

The Cause of Cuba: Spain

It is, for example, held by the leading representatives of Spain in this country, that the prevention of the grinding of cane to make sugar…

The Cause of Cuba: Cuban

The volunteers in Cuba, now 63,000 strong, are men who serve in the Cuban militia three years to get rid of the conscription for five years…

The Cause of Cuba: Cubans

There has been an endeavor to set this down with "malice toward none and charity for all," and it certainly accounts for the frequent…

The Cause of Cuba: Autonomist

It is a question of the highest interest and moment whether the war reopened in 1895 was avoidable, and the strongest testimony that it was…

The Cause of Cuba: Liberal

It is apparent in this paper, which is well known in Cuba, that the gentlemen who prepared and signed it were without knowledge of the…

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