Compare And Contrast Sugar Slavery And Colonialism

While reading Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism, it was interesting to see the breakdown of Cuba’s population. In 1869, the population of Cuba was “1,399,809: 763,176 whites, 238,927 free people of color, 34,420 Asians, and 363,286 slaves” (Pg. 37). This was due to sugar, which caused immigrants from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to come to Cuba and in turn contribute to Cuba’s social, cultural, and political development. It was in the middle 1700s when Cuban colonists cleverly “took advantage of a shifting international situation (the decline of sugar in Brazil with the expulsion of the Dutch; technological developments in the milling process; the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish empire, which stimulated trade; the U.S. revolution,