Our Rightful Share by Aline Helg

Our Rightful Share by Aline Helg

Author:Aline Helg [Helg, Aline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Caribbean & West Indies, Cuba
ISBN: 9781469615868
Google: 3T9sDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2018-08-25T00:43:16+00:00


Chapter 7

The Racist Massacre of 1912

We want to show the civilized world that we do not defend our rights with arms in our hands because we hate whites but because we feel all the misfortune accumulated against us more than three hundred years ago.

— Pedro Ivonnet to Arthur M. Beaupré

It seems that General Monteagudo has sounded the tocsin for the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of black people. The roads are strewn with their dead bodies. . . . I tremble for this black flesh. This is how far we have gotten in Cuba in the twentieth century.

— Henri Bryois to J. de Clercq



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