The uprising started fully on Sunday, November 5, 1943 at 8 p.m. when Carlota burnt down the places used for torture and detention, the home and the mill of the slave master. With sharpened machetes, she and her followers attacked the overseers and their assistants, slaying them… Within hours, the insurgents had toppled the Mayor […]
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