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This watercolor image created in 1595 shows African slaves processing sugarcane on a Spanish plantation in the Caribbean.

However, British control of Cuba didn’t last long. Great Britain returned the island to Spain under the 1763 treaty that ended the Seven Years’ War. Still, the stage had been set for the development of a plan- tation economy. Cuban sugar production took off after Spain began permitting foreign merchant vessels to trade in Cuban ports, and after political upheavals disrupted sugar production

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