Slavery, suffering and resistance in 'Azucre' - in conversation with Bibiana Candia

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With our 41st episode we begin a non-regular mini series on different faces of slavery, its cultural representations and resistance to it. We talk to Bibiana Candia, an acknowledged writer and journalist of Galician origin about her brilliant debut historical novel "Azucre" which was translated into Polish by Katarzyna Okrasko and published by ArtRage in 2023. It is a beutifully written fact-based story of Galician peasants who traveled to Cuba in late 19th century tempted by the promise of better life but end up as slaves at a sugar cane plantation. They were used by greedy landlords as substitutes for Black African slaves after the slavery was formally abolished in Cuba in 1886. Stay tuned for more episodes in this series!