This Yoruba woman led one of Cuba’s biggest revolts in 1844 that later inspired Fidel Castro

Several slave revolts were triggered in the 1800s especially in the Caribbean where slavery had taken a huge rise despite abolitionist effort to end it. Sugar and cotton plantation owners flourished during the time and needed as much cheap labour as they could get in order to increase production which would then have a positive […] The post This Yoruba woman led one of Cuba’s biggest revolts in 1844 that later inspired Fidel Castro appeared first on Global Diaspora News.

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