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This is an extraordinary memoir from a man who was born a slave on a plantation in Cuba circa 1860. Montejo came to the attention of Barnet because of a 1963 newspaper article celebrating Cubans who were over 100 years old. Barnet began interviewing Montejo at the Veteran’s Home, and later transcribed those interviews into this book. It covers at most the first 40 years of Montejo’s life, ending shortly after Cuba won independence from Spain.
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Miguel Barnet, Cuban poet and anthropologist, took notes and taped this first hand account of a former slave, Esteban Montejo, for two years from the time Montejo was 103 until his death at 105.
From Barnet's notes and tapes we have this sometimes disjointed but very interesting account of slavery, the customs of the times, and of the later Cuban revolution for independence.
Born of a Cuban black slave woman surnamed Montejo and an African born black man and immediately separated from them at bi ...more
From Barnet's notes and tapes we have this sometimes disjointed but very interesting account of slavery, the customs of the times, and of the later Cuban revolution for independence.
Born of a Cuban black slave woman surnamed Montejo and an African born black man and immediately separated from them at bi ...more
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