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The first wave of French immigrants to arrive in Cuba were fleeing the Haitian Revolution and the new governmental administration of Haiti after independence was declared. This immigration reached its peak between 1800 and 1809, when more than twenty-seven thousand French of all social classes arrived in the eastern part of Cuba.
Soon after Cuba was colonized and incorporated into the Spanish Empire, there had been several contacts between Cuba and France.The first initial French contact with Cuba was in 1554 when French pirate Jacques de Sores (under the commission of King Francis I of France to raid Spanish ships and territories of gold) raided the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba.
Cuban people of European descent (18 C) S. Spanish diaspora in Cuba (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "European diaspora in Cuba" ... French immigration to Cuba; I ...
Amalia Z. Daché, an Afro-Cuban associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, herself a 1980s Mariel boatlift refugee, called such treatment “offensive to Cuban refugees and immigrants ...
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An immigration law proposal being debated in Cuba would give incentives to Cubans abroad and foreigners ready to invest in the island’s private sector.
Upon the conclusion of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War (1754–1763), between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its North American colonies against France and Spain, many French settlers living in area now under British control (as a result of the Treaty of Paris) fled to the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Hispaniola ...
Caribbean people of French descent (11 C, 1 P) Pages in category "French diaspora in the Caribbean" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.