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Cuban elites petitioned the Spanish Crown to create an independent Cuban slave-trading company, and smugglers continued to ship slaves to the island when they could evade British and American anti-slavery patrols around West Africa.
American illustration showing a black slave driver whipping a black slave in Cuba. According to Voyages – The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, [3] about 900,000 Africans were brought to Cuba as slaves. To compare, some 470,000 Africans were brought to what is now the United States, and 5,500,000 to the much vaster region of what is now Brazil.
Samuel R Scottron, President of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Committee. As a result of the emancipation of slavery in the United States, African Americans sought to challenge slavery in other parts of the hemisphere notably Cuba, and were frustrated by the decision of President Ulysses S. Grant to take a neutral approach towards the ongoing revolution in Cuba that was fought to overthrow slavery in ...
Afro-Cubans (Spanish: Afrocubano) or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry. The term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical or cultural elements in Cuba associated with this community, and the combining of native African and other cultural elements found in Cuban society, such as race, religion, music, language, the arts and class culture.
African, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Guyanese, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians and Venezuelan people Afro-Venezuelans ( Spanish : Afrovenezolanos ), also known as Black Venezuelans ( Spanish : Venezolanos negros ), are Venezuelans who have predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
José Antonio Aponte, often known as "Black" José Aponte, (died April 9, 1812, in Havana) was a Cuban political activist and military officer of Yoruba origin who organized one of the most prominent slave rebellions in Cuba, the Aponte Conspiracy of 1812. [1]
Slavery in Cuba was abolished in October 1886. [4] Prior to the movement, the Afro-Cuban population struggled with fragmentation and an unbalanced social hierarchy. The Afro-Cuban population consisted of working slaves, freed slaves, and a small number of black middle-class elites and intellectuals.
In 1839, a group of Africans were kidnapped from Mendiland (in modern-day Sierra Leone) and transported to the African slave port of Lomboko. [2] [3] There, a slave trader purchased about 500 of the Africans and transported them aboard Tecora to Havana, Cuba. [2] [3]