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alone, there were 26 sugar mills in 1840. They belonged to foreign owners like James Macomb,
Robert Stell, George Bartle, Augustus Hemeway,
José Ribalta, Pablo Ribalta, Drake del Castillo,
Henry Ezequiel Emerson, Manuel Quintero and
Ann Phinney.
Perhaps one of the most difficult moments confronted by Theodore Phinney took place in 1844,
when he saw himself implicated in a slave rebellion known as the Ladder Conspiracy. Old disagreements of his with Cárdenas’s colonial authorities served to unleash reprisals against his slaves,
all this in the midst of a hostile environment, and
to teach the instigators and rebels a lesson.
Letters Phinney sent F