The autobiography of a runaway slave
By: edited by Miguel Barnet ; translated from the Spanish by Jocasta Innes
Contributors: Barnet, Miguel, 1940-
Series: Meridian Books, M275
Publisher: World Pub.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Work titles: Biografía de un cimarrón
Description: This is the story of Esteban Montejo, who was born into slavery in Cuba, spending his youth on a sugar plantation. Later, as a runaway, he spent ten years in isolation in the forest, learning to live from teh land and becoming half savage. After slavery was abolished, he came out of hiding wot work once again in the fields, and eventually became a revolutionary.
Notes: Translation of Biografía de un cimarrón.