Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . ve given thempreferment in the direction and management of the largestsyndicates and tobacco firms. A sprinkling of English,Americans, and French are to be found throughout thecountry. The coloured inhabitants of Cuba (mulattoes) are usuallythe children of black women and white fathers—the casesof a white woman having children with a black father beingso rare as to be nearly unknown. In the cities the mula
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . ve given thempreferment in the direction and management of the largestsyndicates and tobacco firms. A sprinkling of English,Americans, and French are to be found throughout thecountry. The coloured inhabitants of Cuba (mulattoes) are usuallythe children of black women and white fathers—the casesof a white woman having children with a black father beingso rare as to be nearly unknown. In the cities the mulat-toes are servants,—not hotel waiters, for they are all Span-iards,—barbers, and occasionally musicians. Mulatto women,though usually very statuesque in appearance, are unprin-cipled and insolent. The Cuban negro inherits from his forefathers, the Afri-can slaves, a physique and a character strengthened andtempered by the toil of generations. During the sugarseason he works steadily, from four in the morning untilsunset every day, taking only two hours of rest with hismeals. The coloured population shows no inclination tobe on terms of equality with the white, and though under. I- z 3 O I ° U . > I- •* The Population of Cuba 101 General Callejas administration negroes and mulattoes wereall granted the handle of Don (Mr.) to their names, andthough the right to be recognised in hotels, theatres, street-cars, etc., on equal terms with the whites has been extendedto them, they have not availed themselves of the privilegeto any extent. The savagery of the African negro has, unfortunately,shown itself among his descendants in the Island. Someyears ago a secret society called Nanigos was introducedin Havana. These Nanigos are divided into bands, whoseobject is to fight and kill each other. They commit allsorts of depredations and crimes. It has often been shownthat the police have been in their pay. Some four hundredwere banished some time ago to Spanish penitentiaries, t
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