Cuba

As the flames rise around Hatuey, a Spanish friar offers him heaven. Hatuey asks one question: are there Spaniards there?

A. D. Hall’s late-nineteenth-century account begins with Columbus’s first sight of Cuba and follows the island through the arrival of Spanish colonists, who came seeking wealth. Hall sets the kindness of the island’s Indigenous people against the violence of conquest, slavery and resistance, tracing a long struggle for freedom. At its heart is a question that haunts the story from Hatuey’s defiant last words onward: how can a people reclaim a country held for centuries in an iron grip?

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