Reinaldo Cid
Con-Tracción

Con-Tracción

© 2013 Reinaldo Cid

Con-Tracción
Con-Tracción
ArtistCuban, born 1987
CultureCuban
Titles
  • Con-Tracción
Date2013
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 15/16 × 14 1/2 in. (25.3 × 36.9 cm)
Frame (outer): 15 3/4 × 19 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (40 × 50.2 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection, Gift of Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker
Object number2024.249
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
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Description

Cuba emerged in the 19th century as the world’s leading sugar producer and exporter, and the resulting wealth that flowed in produced a flourishing economy and sophisticated culture. Cuba boasted the first railroad in the Spanish Kingdom—a pivotal development for the sugar industry—but the sugar-based economic boom relied equally on the labor of enslaved Africans. The enslaved population—cogs in an industrial system viewed by sugar magnates as little different from their steam-powered locomotives—surged from 39,000 in the 1780s to 400,000 in the 1860s. Slavery was not abolished in Cuba until 1886.

 

Cuba llegó al siglo XIX como el principal productor y exportador de azúcar del mundo, y la riqueza resul- tante produjo una economía floreciente y una cultura sofisticada. La isla contó con el primer ferrocarril del Reino de España, crucial para la economía azucarera; sin embargo, este florecimiento se sostenía con el trabajo de africanos esclavizados. Esta población — que aumentó de 39 000 a 400 000 personas entre 1780 y 1860— era considerada por los magnates del azúcar como un engranaje más en un sistema industrial, comparable con sus locomotoras de vapor. La esclavi- tud no fue abolida en Cuba hasta 1886.


ProvenanceMadeleine and Harvey Plonsker, Glencoe, Illinois; given to MFAH, 2024.

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