“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.
2 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.
A Newspaper Correspondent Arbitrarily Arrested--A Night and Two Days in an Ugly Dungeon--Neglect of Prisoners--A Case of Mistaken…
The Monday morning after the massacre near Punta Brava, which is fourteen miles southwest of Havana, Michelson with his interpreter…