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DOTD - Drink Of The Day

DOTD For Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Something Rummy and Cuban!

Oct 07, 2025
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Today’s DOTD - Drink Of The Day - is a Cuba Libre inspired by Slavery Abolished in Cuba

Slavery in Cuba was abolished by royal decree this day in 1886.

More than a million enslaved West Africans had been brought to Cuba as part of the Atlantic slave trade to work on the lucrative sugar cane plantations. They vastly outnumbered the European population, and today perhaps as many as 60 per cent of Cubans are descended from the enslaved African populations.

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