Also known as: Cuba, Havana, La Havane
Last updated: April 26, 2026
Cuba served as the principal refuge for white colonists fleeing Saint-Domingue's revolution while simultaneously transforming from a secondary sugar producer into the Caribbean's dominant plantation economy - a direct beneficiary of Haiti's revolutionary destruction of its competitor.
Hatuey fled from Hispaniola to Cuba and led indigenous resistance against the Spanish there.
The Aponte Conspiracy in Cuba was influenced by news of the Haitian Revolution.
Tens of thousands of Saint-Domingue refugees — enslaved and free — fled to Cuba during and after the revolution.
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