The Great Gipsy Round-up
Antonio Gómez Alfaro
ISBN: 84-87347-12-6
Pages: 126
Price: EURO 9,92
Publisher: Presencia Gitana, 1993
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This book reconstructs the most distressing episode suffered by the Gypsies in Spain: the general round-up curried out in the reign of Ferdinand VI on 30 July 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, "simply for being Gypsies". The author describes the coordination of the state authorities bent on the round-up, the cooperation of the Church and the outrages committed by all those who made the wretched operation possible.