Most Cubans have seemed content with their…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
The new aristocracy of wealth that had developed around the sugar industry enjoys its recently acquired wealth and fears that a repetition in Cuba of the continental wars would upset the social order upon which its prosperity depends.
This "plantocracy" is willing to tolerate a limited number of political and economic reforms, so long as the status quo is not endangered.
The status quo means the presence of a foreign power to protect their position against the possibility of a black rebellion similar to the one in Haiti.
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