Slavery was finally abolished in Cuba.

Led the Cuban Revolution, promising equality and worker ownership, gaining support from the poor and freed slaves.

It served as a hideout and strategic location for the revolutionaries.

It offered them hope for equality and liberation from oppression.

Highlights the narrator's rediscovery and awareness of her African heritage.

Symbolizes the dehumanization and loss of identity experienced by enslaved people.

It shows the forced labor and suffering endured during slavery.

It explores the oppression and marginalization experienced by Black women in Cuba due to colonialism and slavery.

Politics, history, and Afro-Cuban identity.

It reflects the post-revolution era in Cuba, where there were attempts to address racial inequalities and promote Afro-Cuban culture.

He colonized Cuba in 1511, marking the beginning of Spanish colonial rule.

Assimilation: The process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation.

Marginalization: The process where a group or individual is pushed to the edge of a society and prevented from participating.

Resilience: The ability to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

Barracks: A building or set of buildings used to house a large number of people, often soldiers or laborers.

Usurers: People who lend money at unreasonably high rates of interest.

Chimera: An illusion or fabrication of the mind; an unrealizable dream or hope.

Mountain range, specifically referring to the Sierra Maestra, a hideout for revolutionaries in Cuba.

Free verse: Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

To rebel: To resist authority or control.

To revolt: To rise in rebellion.

Capital: Wealth or resources.

Mountain range in Cuba that served as a hideout for revolutionaries during the Cuban Revolution.

A barrack or large, often crude, building used to house people, especially enslaved people.

Spanish for the 20th century.

Usurers; people who lend money at unreasonably high rates of interest.

Assimilation; the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation.

Marginalization; the process of relegating or confining a group of people to a lower social standing or outer limit or edge of society.

Introspection; the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.

Free verse; poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Symbolism; the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Illusion, dream, or fantasy; something that is hoped or wished for but in fact is impossible to achieve.