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*The majority of the 1,172,899 current Cuban exiles living in the United States live in '''Florida (917,033 in 2014), mainly in Miami-Dade County, where more than a third of the population is Cuban'''. | *The majority of the 1,172,899 current Cuban exiles living in the United States live in '''Florida (917,033 in 2014), mainly in Miami-Dade County, where more than a third of the population is Cuban'''. | ||
*Other exiles have relocated to form substantial Cuban communities in '''New York City (16,416); Louisville, Kentucky (6,662); Houston, Texas (6,233); Los Angeles (6,056); Union City, New Jersey (4,970) and others.<ref>"Cuban exodus", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_exodus, accessed 16 June 2021.</ref> | *Other exiles have relocated to form substantial Cuban communities in '''New York City (16,416); Louisville, Kentucky (6,662); Houston, Texas (6,233); Los Angeles (6,056); Union City, New Jersey (4,970) and others.<ref>"Cuban exodus", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_exodus, accessed 16 June 2021.</ref> | ||
====Afro-Cuban Descendants in Africa==== | |||
*African countries such as '''Nigeria''', the home of the Yoruba and Igbo cultures, and '''Spanish Guinea''' experienced an influx of '''ex-slaves from Cuba brought there as indentured servants during the 17th century, and again during the 19th century'''. In Spanish Guinea, they became part of the Emancipados; in Nigeria, they were called Amaros. Despite being free to return to Cuba when their tenure was over, they remained in these countries marrying into the local indigenous population. | |||
*'''Angola''' also has communities of Afro-Cubans, Amparos. They are descendants of Afro-Cuban soldiers brought to the country in 1975 as a result of the Cuban involvement in the Cold War. Fidel Castro deployed thousands of troops to the country during the Angolan Civil War. As a result of this era, there exists a small Spanish-speaking community in Angola of Afro-Cubans numbering about 100,000.<ref name="AC">"Afro-Cubans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Cubans, accessed 16 June 2021.</ref> | |||
====Haitian-Cubans==== | |||
*The final years of the 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution brought a wave of '''French settlers fleeing with their Haitian slaves''' to Cuba. | |||
*Later, Haitians continued to come to Cuba to work as braceros (Spanish for "manual laborers") in the fields cutting cane. Although they planned to return to Haiti, most stayed on in Cuba. <ref name="AC"/> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Cuba]] | [[Category:Cuba]] | ||