“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.
3 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.
The Massacre At Gautao.
The clouds came up from the Caribbean Sea, majestic in their gloom and poured rivers over the city, and the sun and the wind came and the…
There was a charming breakfast, that was concluded about 1 o'clock, and then came a sudden sensation, a painful surprise. There had been a…