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9781880684184

Biography of a Runaway Slave

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    9781880684184

  • ISBN10:

    1880684187

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-08-01
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...a powerful account of a vanished world...invaluable.-Newsweek "Its contribution to our understanding of Cuban history and national temperament is no less than its immense appeal as a human testament....All the fire and dash of the Cuban character, the refusal ever to cringe or to give up, take on flesh and meaning in the reminiscences of this stubborn veteran."-Times Literary Supplement Miguel Barnet lives in Havana, Cuba, where he was born in 1940. He is the originator of the tradition of "Testimonial" fiction in Latin American letters, and he remains the genre's acknowledged master.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface 11(6)
Slavery
First Memories
17(6)
Life in the Barracoons
23(21)
Life in the Woods
44(17)
The Abolition of Slavery
Life in the Sugarmills
61(98)
The War Of Independence
Life during the War
159(44)
Afterword 203(6)
Footnotes 209(6)
Glossary 215

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