One fraternal society in this modern-day country originated among dockworkers who drew ideographic seals in yellow chalk and wore checkered, full-bodied black-and-white outfits, representing leopards, when performing as religious street dancers called ireme or ñañigos.
One fraternal society in this modern-day country originated among dockworkers who drew ideographic seals in yellow chalk and wore checkered, full-bodied black-and-white outfits, representing leopards, when performing as religious street dancers called ireme or ñañigos. The drum-worshipping Abakuá society operated in this country, where the "reconcentration" policy led to pre-Boer War concentration camps. Many of its slaves were freed after the Pact of Zanjon. The Little War and the Ten Year War were fought in this home of the Morro Citadel, for the same cause advocated for by the Grito de Yara issued in this nation by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. Valeriano Weyler's actions here led him to be known as "The Butcher," drawing foreign attention. For 10 points, name this nation whose independence was fought for by poet José Martí, an island later subject to the Teller and Platt Amendments.
One fraternal society in this modern-day country originated among dockworkers who drew ideographic seals in yellow chalk and wore checkered, full-bodied black-and-white outfits, representing leopards, when performing as religious street dancers called ireme or ñañigos.
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