EMILIA CASANOVA
New York, 1863
Cubans and Puerto Ricans, all of us gather
in Brooklyn, or on West 29th Street, to speak
of rising up against Spain and uniting
in the struggle
for women’s
suffrage—our right
to vote!
Meanwhile, our young men go willingly
into the United States army, fighting
on the side of the Union,
uniting
against slavery.