Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era.
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Likewise, Pl cido and Manzano subverted the popular imagery of neoclassicism and Romanticism in order to envision Black freedom in the tradition of the Haitian Revolution.
Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality.
Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era