Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba
by
Gerard Laurence Aching
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced...