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Esteban montejo, the story of Cuba’s last cimarrón slave
- Source: The UNESCO Courier, Volume 2024, Issue 3, Jul 2024, p. 20 - 21
- Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
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- 18 Jul 2024
Abstract
In the early 1960s, Cuban writer and ethnologist Miguel Barnet collected the testimony of 104-year-old Afro-descendant Esteban Montejo. The hugely influential account he drew up is a unique document on the condition of captives and the violence of the slavery system.
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