The life and poems of a Cuban slave : Juan Francisco Manzano, 1797-1854 /

Out of print for nearly two decades, Edward Mullen's scholarly edition of Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiography and poetry has long been considered the standard text for understanding this remarkable figure's life and work. This revised second edition builds upon the achievement of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manzano, Juan Francisco, 1797-1854 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Mullen, Edward J., 1942- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Afro-Latin@ diasporas.
Temas:
Manzano, Juan Francisco, > 1797-1854.
Manzano, Juan Francisco, > 1797-1854
Slavery > Cuba > History > Sources.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Slavery
Cuba
History
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : poems by a slave in the island of Cuba
  • Preface
  • The slave-trade merchant
  • The sugar estate
  • Life of the Negro poet
  • Poems, written in slavery / by Juan
  • To death
  • To calumny
  • Religion: an ode
  • Years
  • The cucuya; or fire-fly
  • The clock that gains
  • The dream
  • A specimen of inedited Cuban poems
  • Appendix
  • In re, slave trade : questions addressed to senor of Havana / by R.R. Madden
  • Questions respecting the state of religion in Cuba, addressed to senor of the Havana / by R.R.M
  • Necessity of separating the Irish in America from the sin of slavery
  • Bartholomew las Casas
  • Evils of the Cuban slave-trade
  • Conditions of slaves in Cuba
  • Laws for the protection of slaves in Cuba
  • Emancipation of slaves in Cuba
  • Glossary
  • Manzano's poems in the original Spanish
  • Mis Treinta Años
  • El relox adelantado
  • La cocuyera
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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