100 Refutations: Day 29 | InTranslation

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873) was a well-known author and playwright who lived nearly half of her life in her native Cuba and the other half in Spain. Her first novel, Sab, was an antislavery novel that predates Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin by a decade. Because of its abolitionist and feminist content, Sab was banned in Cuba until 1914, 73 years after it was first published.