Poet Slave Of Cuba!!!

Poet Slave Of Cuba, A book about a young boy whose mother is freed but not him. His owner said "once i die your free to go". So he prays, The only reason she stayed with him was because he did poetry and he knew how to say them very well. she said he was like a son to him yet she hurt him often and punished him a lot. Her older son named Don Nicolas said i hope for the when he is freed and we can ride horses and pretend we are brother. but for now he tells his mom to punish him like she punishes Juan with pain and suffer, so she dose. she has no problem with that. she said its a way to discipline kids because she says you give them so much and they are still not great full. At party's Juan goes and he is ordered to cover her ears to block out the sound. she locks him down in a basement tied were he says he knows old slaves are behind the walls dead, were no one knows about them. he sings to his mom and she replies singing as well and they always keep in touch. she is freed but not him. one day she comes to tell him his father had died and he was depressed so was she. in this part of the book is was really sad because he gets a beating every day and he is always in the basement.