📗 Libro en inglés THE GREAT GYPSY ROUND-UP: SPAIN, GENERAL IMPRIOSONMENT GYPSIES 17 49

Antonio Gomez Alfaro

The drama and crudeness of this Spanish-style holocaust surpass expressive possibilities and can only result in nausea, however, much we may wish to conceptualize and situate the events back in their own time, in an attempt to contemplate them dispassionately from an aseptic distance.
This book reconstructs the most distressing episodes suffered by gypsies in Spain: the general round-up carried out in the reign of Ferdinand VI on July 30, 1749. The universal nature of the operation deprived ten or twelve thousand women and men, old people and children, of their freedom in one single day.