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Primary Sources
This collection focuses on Cuban sugar production and trade beginning in the late 19th century under Fidel Castro. The Braga Brothers collection, “provides descriptions of the social, political, and economic environment in which Cuban sugar was manufactured.” The archive will give greater context to the later part of sugar culture in the Atlantic.
- Maps of Sugar Production in Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Madeira Islands.
- Figures detailing slave production and mortality, Atlantic land prices, and price differences in Mexico, Brazil and Morelos.
The maps and figures listed are located in the text “Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680”