
Episode 135: Connected Histories of Cuba and the United States
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Invested in the United States?
During the american revolution, cuba's obviously a spanish colony. Cubans collected money to help george washington's troops towards the end of the war. Even cuba's black battalions participated in expeditions in florida during that war. And then in terms of us. Involvement in cuba struggle for independence, that's a much more complicated story. The first war begins in 18 68. But even before thet beginning, slowly in the 18 20 definitely werfully, in the 18 forties and 18 fifties, there were americans who said they wanted to fight for cuban independence from spain. What they wanted was to kind of
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