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Role Of In The War Independence
1,351 wordsWhat distinguished the final War of Independence (1895 - 1898) from the earlier Ten Years' War (1868 - 1878) and the short-lived Guerra Chiquita (1879 - 1880) was the war's success throughout the majority of the island, the final ousting of the Spanish through the American intervention, the espousal of an egalitarian ideology by a radical multiracial military leadership, and the ionization of the war's two most revered heroes: Jos Mart and Antonio Maceo. As has been documented, the aims of the l...
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Social And Economic Afro Cuban
1,348 words... fluid in the Oriente where there was already a large free black population before 1886. The Oriente held the largest black population on the island and was the site of initial rebel activity in both the Ten Years' War and the War for Independence. The Ten Years' War was never successful in becoming an island-wide revolt and part of the reason for this may be attributed to the effectiveness of Spanish propaganda that the Oriente blacks were planning a race war to establish an independent blac...
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Afro Cuban Catholic Saints Yoruba
801 wordsThe Yoruba, one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most populous groups, sixteen million strong, live in the Republic of Nigeria. They are heirs to an ancient culture exceptional for its urban density, refinement and complexity. When forced migration took Yoruba peoples to the plantations of Cuba, Brazil and Haiti, they recombined their deities into a new pantheon and incorporated Catholic saints whose powers and histories seemed parallel. For example, some representations of the Virgin Mary were equated w...
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Works Of Art Afro Cuban
2,587 wordsSyncretism The African presence in the Americas has left an indelible imprint not only on the region's economic, social, and ethnic aspects; but even more so in the cultural, artistic, and religious development of this hemisphere. The study of this presence and its influences has gained tremendous significance in the current century, as has the interest in syncretism or juxtaposed religions created by a blending of Christian and African religious beliefs, rites and practices. Hundreds of years a...
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Afro Cuban Racial Equality
2,711 wordsWhat distinguished the final War of Independence (1895 - 1898) from the earlier Ten Years War (1868 - 1878) and the short-lived Guerra Chiquita (1879 - 1880) was the wars success throughout the majority of the island, the final ousting of the Spanish through the American intervention, the espousal of an egalitarian ideology by a radical multiracial military leadership, and the ionization of the wars two most revered heroes: Jos? Mart? and Antonio Maceo. As has been documented, the aims of the li...
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