Cuaresma de sangre

Original novel about the numerous African slaves who lived in Seville in the 17th century, gateway and port of the Indies. Domingo Congo, a black page of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, has become a bailiff of the Sevillian black community. When they give him the tip that "bad things" are going to happen in Lent, Domingo reveals the Portuguese interests in encouraging a revolt in Seville against Philip IV on Holy Thursday of 1641. Constructed with fictitious elements but also with rigorous documentation, this This work is an interesting novel about a Seville that began its inexorable decline and where references to the present are not lacking.