The world: historical and actual . nameof Juana;the originalname, how-ever, firstSpanish col-ony was es-tablished in1511. TheCaptain- General who ruled the colony in its , was a monster of cruel rapacity. By1553 the native population had been nearlyexterminated by their inhuman taskmasters, whothen resorted to the African slave trade to sup-ply the labor market with slaves. In 1524 the Frenchdestroyed Havana, and again twenty years later, butthey gained no substantial advantage thereby. In1024 the Dutch took it. Later in the same centurypiratical marauders,
The world: historical and actual . nameof Juana;the originalname, how-ever, firstSpanish col-ony was es-tablished in1511. TheCaptain- General who ruled the colony in its , was a monster of cruel rapacity. By1553 the native population had been nearlyexterminated by their inhuman taskmasters, whothen resorted to the African slave trade to sup-ply the labor market with slaves. In 1524 the Frenchdestroyed Havana, and again twenty years later, butthey gained no substantial advantage thereby. In1024 the Dutch took it. Later in the same centurypiratical marauders, flying no national flag, seriouslyravaged the coast. In 1702 the English took Ha-vana, restoring it, however, the next year in exchangefor Florida. Spain has always shown a desper-ate resolution to maintain possession of Cuba. TheUnited States, prior to the abolition of slavery, cov-eted it, offering Spain at one time 8100,000,000 for was in 1848. Six years later an attempt wasmade to intimidate the government at A SUGAI Three American ministers-plentipotentiary, , Mason and Soule, met and went throughthe solemn farce of issuing the Ostend manifesto,claiming for the United States the right to takepossession of the island if Spain persisted in re-fusing to sell it. This game of bluff failing, theproject of annexation was abandoned. For a long time prior to the abolition of the Af-rican slave trade (1845), Cuba was the center of animmense traffic in fresh supplies of negroes from thecontinent of Africa. The South American colonieslargely depended upon Cuba for servants, until theirindependence and emancipation, and a great •many wereclandestine-ly broughtto the Uni-ted Statesby way ofCuba. Sev-eral insur-rections oc-curred thatwere crush-ed out withgreat cruel- ty- The mostresolute ef-fort to ob-tain inde- ]<endence was begun in 1808. The leader of themovement was Manuel Carlos Cespedes, afterwardselected President of the Republic, or abortiv
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