Title: The barefoot queen
Description: Facing homelessness after the death of her master, Cuban former slave Caridad becomes a freedom fighter at the side of rebellious gypsy Milagros Carmona, with whom she confronts increasingly hostile elements in mid-eighteenth-century Madrid.
Subjects: Homeless women, Insurgency, Romanies, History, Women slaves, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Spain, fiction
Places: Madrid (Spain)
Time periods: 18th century