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.
It bears the marks of slavery, not merely by virtue of the countless oppressive autobiographical events and th.
His narrative, composed in two parts, is a heart-rendering history of the systematic, unrelenting destruction of human dignity and individual will.
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
