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Published by Pepitas de calabaza · History and archaeology · ISBN 9788417386825

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Galicia, 1853: after a winter of rain that ruined the harvests, and in the middle of a cholera epidemic, a group of young men leave home to work in the Cuban cane fields, hoping to help their families. The novel recreates a real episode: some 1,700 young Galicians taken to the island under a scheme by Urbano Feijóo de Sotomayor to replace labour brought from Africa, who ended up sold as slaves.

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For readers of historical fiction who want to learn about a forgotten episode of Galician emigration, told through the voices of those who lived it rather than official reports.

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