Agriculture Engineering

In 1860, a large part of Cuban society as a caste system. The color and ethnicity prevails in the social rank. On the basis of a multi-ethnic and racial went like this Whites, Free People of Color and of course then the slaves. It is interesting that often the slaves of the indigenous peoples by the colonizers of the island of Cuba have been asked. This is especially the fact that they have adapted to the colonial culture easier than the Indians. Not least was the slave at the bottom of the caste system in reality.

Most companies in Cuba by the Spanish Spain called Peninsulares controlled. They were born in Cuba and the Spanish decent. They were called Criollos. But the elite were those of Spain. It was the Criollos, who are involved with agriculture and plantations. The color of the clans were free people of color in Cuba. They for the most part, are a mixed race of illegitimate children of slave owners and slaves. The free men were also classified as mestizo (mixed) or black. In 1847 another group of Chinese were brought to Cuba as slaves. They were called coolies. After the liberation of slaves in Cuba in 1886, China is among the lowest on the totem equality.

The slaves were blacks who were held by white slave owners. It aimed to be free from work in exchange for slavery. Although slavery began in 1500 in Cuba, it was only much later that the Africans were brought to Cuba en masse. In 1860 there were over 370,000 slaves in Cuba. Of the 370,000 slaves were 218 000 men and 152 000 women. They were all predominantly African or African descent. Eighty percent of the population worked in the slave sugar plantations.

Among the Africans, who as slaves to Cuba, four main groups were brought, maintained their cultural and ethnic identity during the period of slavery. The first of the Congo, was man. This included the largest population of African slaves in Cuba. It was estimated that 400 000 Congo / Bantu slaves imported to Cuba. They were brought to Cuba during the entire Cuban slaves in the fields of sugar cane work.

The largest groups of slaves from Africa were the Lucumi. These slaves were Yoruba in southwest Nigeria origin. They were in Cuba from 1820 to 1860, the collapse of the Oyo empire brought comply. An estimated 275 000 Lucumi were brought to Cuba.

It was the free blacks who formed cabildos or houses on the ethnicity of free blacks basis. These neatly cabildos cultures and religions of various African groups that have been enslaved in Cuba. Sun Afro-Cuban cultures and religions have survived slavery.