Abstract
Spanish-speaking immigrant cigar makers created an influential anarchist colony in Brooklyn during the late nineteenth century. Although studies of diasporic Spanish radicalism in this era typically identify Ybor City (Tampa) and Key West as the activist cigar makers’ principal locations in the United States, New York’s Spanish-speaking anarchist cigar makers established Brooklyn as a primary center for the support and promotion of anarchism, Cuba Libre, and of opposition to the Spanish monarchy and church. This chapter will examine the origins, development, and significant participants in Brooklyn’s radical colonia within the transnational anarchist network of the late nineteenth and early twentieth