Haitian Cuban

Due to the United States occupation of Haiti, many Haitians left to find work as laborers in neighboring countries like Cuba.

Cuban racists beliefs combined with economic concerns were a direct catalyst for this drastic Haitian exodus.

[3] Cubans feared a repeat of the Haitian Revolution, which was not quelled by the current guerrilla warfare in Haiti by the caco forces against the Americans.

[7] Haitians lived in small communities near the sugar cane plantations, very rural and removed from populous cities.

[9] Haitians have continued to come to Cuba to work as braceros (hand workers, from the Spanish word brazo, meaning "arm") in the fields cutting cane.