ENG/hist101

The speech traces the U.S – Cuban political relationship to the period before the abolishment of slavery and the role of the American civil war in this relationship. The speaker notes that the civil war was not just about the future of the United States but of the world. Indeed the participants of that war viewed it as such. Hitherto, asserts the speaker, historians have misunderstood and, therefore, misrepresented the position of the American civil war in the history of the transatlantic and ...