Under the Southern cross in South America . MARTI PARK, HAVANA, FORMERLY CENTRAL PARK. FLOWER OF THF ANTILLES 13 The Negro insurrection of 1831 hastened the approach of eman-cipation. Li 1833 the Emancipation Act was passed, providing forthe total extinction of slavery in the island after August 1, Act awarded some thirty miUion dollars as compensation tothe slaveholders. Still, after this time there were much bickering and conflictsbetween the blacks and whites, and in another formidableinsurrection took place. As a result the old Parliamentary Govern-ment was abolished in 1866
Under the Southern cross in South America . MARTI PARK, HAVANA, FORMERLY CENTRAL PARK. FLOWER OF THF ANTILLES 13 The Negro insurrection of 1831 hastened the approach of eman-cipation. Li 1833 the Emancipation Act was passed, providing forthe total extinction of slavery in the island after August 1, Act awarded some thirty miUion dollars as compensation tothe slaveholders. Still, after this time there were much bickering and conflictsbetween the blacks and whites, and in another formidableinsurrection took place. As a result the old Parliamentary Govern-ment was abolished in 1866 and the island reduced to the grade ofa Crown Colony. Representative government was re-establishedin 1884. The ruler is a governor appointed by the Crown, who isassisted by an elected council. The population of the island is about 800,000, of whom morethan one-half are black. There are over 120,000 half-breeds, 120,000Indians, some 50,000 coolies, and the remainder, consisting of alittle more than 20,000, are whites, chiefly English. The princi-pal exports are sugar, tobacco, rum,
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