This title describes the gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelands. In the late 19th century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in segregated tenements in New York City. At an immigrant educational society, they taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries, and built a political network and articulated an ideal of revolutionary nationalism centered on racial and social justice. These efforts were critical to poet/diplomat Jose Marti's writings about race and his bid for leadership among Cuban exiles, and to the later struggle to create space for black political participation in the Cuba. By placing Afro-Latino New Yorkers at the center of the story, this book offers a new interpretation of the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean, including the idea that Cuba could become a nation without racial divisions.