The national question in the colonies of Antilles

Abstract

The aim of this article is to research the identity project built by the Antillean liberal autonomists’ group during the ninenteenth century. This faction was composed by intellectuals and members of the sugar Havanan oligarchy. Their purpose was to look for a more advantageous position for the island of Cuba and the Overseas territories in the frame of the Spanish liberal state in construction throughout the nineteenth century. Due to the censorship, this group could not use the political speech to get this objective, which made that they had to look for an alternative way to express their ideas; literature transformed by this way into its main instrument.