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This tale of a slaves unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist novel published during the century in Spain or its colonies. This unique text raises important issues concerning power- race- gender and class in colonial societies- colonial and post-colonial subjectivity and identities- feminist appropriations of the abolitionist agenda- human rights discourse- and literary and philosophical issues associated with enlightenment thought. This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English- as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba- a vocabulary list- and suggestions for further reading. -- ....