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Cocoa I'm going to be able to be. And so you know, Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 124 and it's the second episode in a small mini wander into the history of the island of Cuba.

We left off in episode 123 at just the point where Spain had landed on, commandeered, and then conquered Cuba.

And thereafter, the Spanish applied the usual 15th and 16th century colonial ways to the island and its inhabitants.

In today's episode, we wander through several hundred years of colonial rule by Spain,

including its mother country restrictions on trade, the focus on the two major industries

of sugar, cane, and coffee, the eventual importation of a massive number of slaves from Africa

to create the labor force in scale for those industries, and finally, conflict within Cuba,

which eventually ignited the march toward independence from Spain. So, back to the beginning

of things for a second. You know, Christopher Columbus never set foot on the United States proper as we know it.

And why do I mention this?

Well, I mention it because those that were here in the American colony under England

developed in a much different way.

And that way eventually led to a path toward national identity.

And then, of course, independence as a nation.

And our path here in the U.S. was in full swing by the mid-1700s.

Here in the states, we would accomplish independence from the mother country some 125 years ahead of the islands.

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