Title: Mi Cristo negro
Description: "Manuel Saturio Valencia was the last sentenced to death in Colombia. He learned to read on his own in Quibdó at the end of the 19th century, and became interested in music and languages. He was one of the first Afro-Colombians to graduate as a lawyer and pursue a career as a public servant. He had two impossible loves, fought against racism and suffered the consequences of challenging the established order. In Quibdó itself, but at the end of the 20th century, through documentary research and a spiritual exercise supported by the connection she felt with the figure of Manuel Saturio Valencia, Teresa Martínez de Varela wrote My Black Christ, an essential book with hints of drama and committed to the claim" --Distributor's summary (Amazon.com).
Subjects: Black people, Biography, Public executions, History, Race discrimination, Colombian Authors
Places: Colombia
People: Manuel Saturio (1867-1907)