El fuerte de la Florida

Saint Augustine of Florida. 1740. Samuel Durango, a Spaniard of African origin and inhabitant of Fort Mosé -the first settlement of free blacks in North America-, is captured by the slave-owning chiefs of the British colonies. Outraged by her father's decision not to come to the young man's aid, Teresa de Montiano, the governor's daughter, secretly hires an eccentric captain whose actions are about to spark a war. Together they begin a risky journey that aims to enter the immense sugar plantations of Carolina, find the young Samuel and free the rest of the men enslaved by the smuggler Caleb Davis. Meanwhile, in Spanish Florida, the other blacks of Mosé and the Spanish of St. Augustine prepare to defend the city against the imminent arrival of invading forces. Santiago Mazarro, who already surprised critics with his first novel, returns to gut the entrails of colonial America with a fast-paced, well-documented adventure story that is clearly necessary to understand the continent's multicultural legacy.