*‘Cuba is already ours’: Annexationists, filibusterers, and the United
States’ struggle to buy Cuba, c. 1820-1898
Speaker: Dr Carrie Gibson*
March 15, 2017 5:30pm
UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0P
This event is free of charge but registration is required, as seating is
limited.
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This paper discusses the many attempts of the United States to buy Cuba
from Spain throughout the nineteenth century. Although all the bids
ended in failure, each one came at a particular moment of change or
crisis, and was set in a much wider global context. The bids in 1853 and
1898 were particularly crucial, coming before and after the abolition of
slavery in both places, and this paper will focus on those two in
discussing how this period was critical in the development of the
relationship between Cuba and the United States.
Dr Carrie Gibson received her PhD from Cambridge in 2011 where her
thesis focussed on the impact of the Haitian Revolution on the Spanish
Caribbean islands. She has been working as an independent historian,
publishing Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus
to the Present Day (Pan Macmillan) in 2014. She has just completed a
manuscript on the ‘forgotten’ Hispanic past of the United States, which
will be published by Grove Atlantic in 2018.
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