Guerra, Ramiro - Speech (previously MS Group 301), 1934

File — Box: 1, Folder: 47

Speech by Ramiro Guerra entitled "El Latifundo Azucarero y la Poblacion de las Antillas" or "West Indian Sugar Plantations and Peoples" (includes cover letter from H. Harold Hume to Dr. C.L. Crow)

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Scope and Contents

Typescript of a speech and correspondence. This collection contains the manuscript and translation of "El latifundio azucarero y la poblacion de las Antillas" ("West Indian sugar plantations and peoples"), as presented before the Atheneum Club of the University of Florida on October 19, 1934. Also, there is a letter from H. Harold Hume to C.L. Crow, Professor of Modern Languages, dated November 2, 1934, indicating that Crow is the translator.

Both paper and translation were discovered in records of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs (Series 23a, University Archives Public Records). Original document is in Spanish, and the translation is in English.

Dates

Creation: 1934

Language of Materials

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Includes materials written in English and Spanish.

Access

The collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Author, economic historian, and Cuban nationalist. Born 1880, died 1970. Author of the influential work, Sugar and Society in the Caribbean: An Economic History of Cuban Agriculture.