The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

“I find it so easy to forget / that I’m just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts.”

Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were p…

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