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The Mayflawer’s
Afro-Cuban Secrets

History

Rodolfo P. Bofill Phinney*
Journalist
Cuban. Resident of the United States
No matter who we are, parents learn that the only thing we can truly share is the common humanity
that unites us.
The knowledge that all of us, absolutely all of us, suffer because each choice is difficult and, in its
own way, definitive.
James Sallis (Arkansas, 1944)

Only photograph found of Ceferino Phinney Morales
hey didn’t need to make up a story. Each
one told his or her version of the same
one. They told it and told it and others are
still telling the old story. It is always orally, from

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one person to another, from generation to generation, as if it were a legend. A handful of Cubans,
insignificant mulattoes, claim they are descend-

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