Translated into English for the first time, Andr s Avelino de Orihuela's El Sol de Jes s del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel. Published originally in 1852, the same year as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, it provides an uncompromising critique of discourses of white superiority and an endorsement of equality for free people of color. The Sun of Jes s del Monte is the only Cuban novel of its time to focus on La Escalera,...