The New York Times

Why Thousands of Cubans Are Migrating to Guyana

Cubans are desperate to come here in part because the economy has been supercharged by the same thing driving people out of Cuba: oil.

Book of the Day

Maggie O'Farrell's novel 'Land' takes readers to a famine-ravaged yet resilient Ireland

I think what interested me was the people who neither died nor left. I was interested in the people who survived and stayed behind. You know, a lot of history focuses, and rightly so, on the million or so people who died. And then also the people who emigrated. I feel as though those stories have been — we know those stories in a sense, and they're terrible, tragic stories.

Throughline

The confederates who left the USA | Throughline

So they left the US in search of another slave society where they could continue their way of life with white supremacy as the social order and slavery as the economic system.