Spanish women would soon arrive. Isabella Mendoza, widowed at 17, before becoming a wife, found herself alone in a house filled with corpses. Pregnant with the child of a dead man, she would inherit a plantation ruined by blood and revenge. The story of Isabella Mendoza and Tomás has become a legend in Cuba.
Eduardo. Do it. But before the doctor could go up to Isabelle’s room, the screaming began. This time it didn’t come from the stables, it came from the main house. José had come in through the kitchen, his hands wrapped in chains he had broken at the forge. Miguel and four others
Slaves followed him, armed with machetes, hammers, and any tool they could find. The first soldier they encountered died before he could scream. José stabbed him in the head with a force born of years of repressed hatred for Tomás. He screamed, and his words became the battle cry of
