Miguel Aldama

Aldama became part of a reformist delegation led by José Morales Lemus in late 1866, traveling to Madrid, Spain to negotiate reforms with the Spanish government. With the failure of these negotiations, the delegates aligned themselves with those who initiated the Ten Years' War in 1868.

Aldama served on the Revolutionary Committee of Havana with fellow members José Morales Lemus, Antonio Fernández Bramosio, José Manuel Mestre, and José Antonio Echeverría.

His property was seized by Spanish authorities on the orders of Spanish Military Governor Domingo Dulce, who mandated an embargo on April 1, 1869, against Cuban properties and assets.

On May 10, 1869, Aldama arrived at the Port of New York in the United States after departing Cuba's capital on board the steamship S.S. Morro Castle.

In November 1869, the revolutionary Cuban Junta was reorganized in New York City and Aldama assumed the role of the president of the Cuban Junta. The Cuban Junta in New York was formed to finance the uprising against the colonial regime of Spain in Cuba. A court-martial was held on November 9, 1870, in which Aldama and others associated with the second junta of New York were convicted of treason and rebellion, with a death sentence by garrote awaiting them if they fell into Spanish hands.

In 1878, following the Pact of Zanjón, his palatial residence, near Plaza del Vapor, was returned by the colonial government but never again occupied by the Aldama family.