Franklin W. Knight
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LOCATION: Baltimore, MD, United States
Stulman Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Author of Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century; The Caribbean; and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Cuba, country of the West Indies, the largest single island of the archipelago, and one of the more-influential states of the Caribbean region. The domain of the Arawakan-speaking Taino, who had displaced even earlier inhabitants, Cuba was claimed by Christopher Columbus for Spain in 1492. It…
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