World's Sugar Bowl 



cultural productions of all kinds in 

 favor of mining. Indeed, after a very 

 few years, the cultivation of sugar 

 cane in Cuba was forbidden, and 

 even after that prohibition was with- 

 drawn, cane was permitted to be 

 grown only under governmental 

 monopolies and privileges which had 

 such a restrictive influence that no 

 real progress was made with cane on 

 the Island until about 1772. 



After that year, however, any 

 Spaniard was free to produce sugar, 

 and this led to such an increased 

 production that the exportation more 

 than trebled in thirty years. 



By 1800 Cuba had 870 sugar fac- 

 tories and was exporting more than 

 40,000 tons a year. Owing to Napo- 

 leon's "Continental System" which 

 took Europe out of Cuba's market 

 during the first years of the nine- 

 teenth century, the industry suffered 

 heavily; but after Napoleon's fall, 

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