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On 10 October 1868 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, a criollo plantation owner who had already had a brief role in uprisings in Spain, issued a call for independence and liberated slaves from his estate, La Demajagua.
It further requires addressing the root causes of poverty and inequality, which give rise to the phenomenon of migration and trafficking as well as propagate violent uprisings.
The Jacobite uprisings found little support in such lowland cities as Edinburgh.
The order played a great part in Cretan uprisings against the Turks — monks were hanged in 1821 — and more recently against the Germans in WWII when it was a rallying point for British soldiers and native partisans.
Despite uprisings such as that of the Ciompi (wool-workers), the resilient Florentines were well-fed and highly literate compared to the rest of the country.