The Autobiography of a Slave / Autobiografia de Un Esclavo by Juan Francisco Manzano

The Autobiography of a Slave / Autobiografia de Un Esclavo

Juan Francisco Manzano with Evelyn Picon Garfield (Translator)

136 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging dark emotional slow-paced
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Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's colonial slave society, wrote the only known autobiographical account of Latin American slavery. His narr...

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