An American team of academics is racing to preserve millions of Cuban historical documents before they are lost to the elements and poor storage conditions. Many of the documents shed light on the slave trade, an integral part of Cuba's colonial history that was intertwined with that of the United States. David Lafevor said there is nothing like Cuba's documents in the U.S., where slaves were considered possessions, not human beings. It is especially important to preserve the history of the Afro-Cuban community, whose history has not been well documented in Cuba, he added. He said the current project will run until 2018 and hopes to digitize almost 2 million documents in four cities around the island.

Source: Fox News January 16, 2017 05:27 UTC