Abstract
The historical community has paid little attention to the formation and destruction of communal plantations in central and eastern regions of Cuba. The destruction of communal plantations occurred during the republican period and constituted a key movement in the path from pre-capitalist to capitalist ownership in agriculture. This article constitutes an attempt to understand this movement of division within the estates of the east of the island, in particular Cacocum, which we feel may be a methodological and epistemological paradigm.