Cuba: Cultural Diversity through time

Human diversity that reflected Cuba's history and fascinated Marie-Victorin!

This class from a rural school on the remote Isle of Pines is like the League of Nations. I was left with the impression that this sweet "league" does more useful work than the other one.

Group of children holding a Cuban flag

Credits: UdeM: E01185FP11672

The panels are shown according to their order in the exhibit.
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1 - 6 on a total of 6 panels for this theme

Pre-Columbian era:
Native presence extending back thousands of years

1492-1511:
The Spanish conquest

16^th?19^th centuries:
Black slaves

1868:
Rising nationalism

1902:
Independence

... 1959:
American domination

Under the Cuban Sun with Marie-Victorin [Jardin botanique de Montréal]