Azucre

Galicia, 1853. The rainiest winter in history has destroyed the crops and a cholera epidemic begins to wreak havoc among the population. Orestes, el Tísico, el Rañeta y Trasdelrío, el Comido, Tomás el de Coruña and many other birds of prey who yearn for a better future for themselves and their families decide to leave their homes and go to Cuba to earn a living in the sugarcane plantations. sugar. But that trip has in store for them an ordeal that their candid minds would never have been able to imagine. Azucre is the fictionalized account of the authentic story of 1,700 young people who traveled to Cuba to work and ended up being sold as slaves by Urbano Feijóo de Sotomayor, a Galician living on the island who, taking advantage of the need situation of his compatriots, promoted a campaign of white colonization and substitution of labor brought from Africa. These shockingly beautiful, hypnotic and evocative pages, far removed from official reports and cold analysis, give voice to the silenced of this terrible event that at the time was a real scandal and that memory cannot ignore.