Cuba & the USA: an intertwined history
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Cuban Sugar Planters and the Haitian Revolution
San Domingue which later became Haiti was the world's largest producer of sugar in the late 18th century. It produced a fortune for Britain from there and then it moved to Jamaica, before moving on to Cuba where planters saw their fortunes improve after the Haitian revolution. One Cuban planter said you know when sugar started booming there he said the hour of our happiness has arrived but his happiness wasn't that of enslaved Africans who had been forced into slavery.
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