Cuban Sugar Plantations and Slave Labor under Spanish Rule (1790–1886)

1. Haitian Revolution reshapes Caribbean sugar markets

   Aug 21, 1791Labels: Haitian Revolution, Saint-Domingue, Cuban planters

   • Britannica
   • Princeton

2. Arango y Parreño promotes plantation growth

   Jan 1, 1792Labels: Francisco de, Havana agriculture, Plantation policy

   • Arango bio
   • Princeton

3. Steam power begins transforming sugar mills

   Jan 1, 1796Labels: Steam engines, Sugar mills, Cuban planters

   • Mills Archive
   • Scribd Curry

4. Aponte conspiracy challenges slavery and colonial rule

   Mar 11, 1812Labels: Jos Antonio, Aponte conspiracy, Afro-Cuban resistance

   • Encyclopedia com
   • Aponte

5. Royal decree expands trade and settlement in Cuba

   Aug 10, 1815Labels: Real C, Spanish crown, Cuba settlement

   • C dula
   • C dula EN

6. Spain agrees to end the transatlantic slave trade

   Sep 23, 1817Labels: Spain Britain, Transatlantic slave, Spanish colonies

   • Treaty text
   • Britannica

7. Havana–Bejucal railway opens for sugar transport

   Nov 19, 1837Labels: Havana Bejucal, Railway infrastructure, Sugar transport

   • Railway history
   • Habana G ines

8. La Escalera repression targets Afro-Cuban resistance

   Jun 29, 1844Labels: La Escalera, Matanzas region, Colonial crackdown

   • Oxford Finch
   • Year of Lash

9. First Chinese indentured laborers arrive in Havana

   Jun 3, 1847Labels: Chinese indentures, Havana port, Plantation labor

   • Plaza Vapor
   • Britannica

10. Ten Years’ War begins with emancipation claims

    Oct 10, 1868Labels: Carlos Manuel, Ten Years', Sugar mill

    • Cry of Yara
    • Ten Years War

11. Moret Law starts gradual abolition in Cuba

    Jul 4, 1870Labels: Moret Law, Spanish legislature, Gradual abolition

    • Moret Law
    • Ley Moret

12. Pact of Zanjón ends war and advances manumission

    Feb 10, 1878Labels: Pact of, Ten Years', Manumission measures

    • Ten Years War
    • Abolition Spain

13. Spain’s 1880 law replaces slavery with patronato

    May 8, 1880Labels: Patronato system, 1880 law, Formerly enslaved

    • Abolition Spain
    • Britannica

14. Final abolition ends patronato and legal slavery

    Oct 7, 1886Labels: Final abolition, Abolition of, Cuban labor

    • Abolition Spain
    • Britannica