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Biography of a runaway slave / Miguel Barnet ; translated by W. Nick Hill.
- Title
- Biography of a runaway slave / Miguel Barnet ; translated by W. Nick Hill.
- Author
- Montejo, Esteban, 1860-1973
- Publication
- Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press ; East Haven, CT : Distributed by InBook, 1994.
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- Description
- 217 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Valuable new version of Biografía de un cimarrón includes Hill's expert translation; brief but informative preface about Esteban Montejo (the book's first-person narrator); Barnet's afterword (which replaces, albeit partially, his original introduction), in which he explains his understanding of literatura testimonal; and a glossary of terms. Original work was first translated as Autobiography of a runaway slave by Jocasta Innes (1968)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
- Uniform Title
- Biografía de un cimarrón. English
- Alternative Title
- Biografía de un cimarrón.
- Subject
- Montejo, Esteban, 1860-1973
- Montejo, Esteban, b.1860-1973
- Montejo, Esteban, 1860-
- 1800-1899
- Fugitive slaves > Cuba > Biography
- Revolutionaries > Cuba > Biography
- Plantation life > Cuba > History > 19th century
- Esclaves fugitifs > Cuba > Biographies
- Révolutionnaires > Cuba > Biographies
- Vie dans les plantations > Cuba > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Fugitive slaves
- Plantation life
- Revolutionaries
- Revolutionaries > Cuba > Biography
- Cuba > History > Revolution, 1895-1898 > Personal narratives
- Cuba
- Cuba > History > 1895-1898, Revolution > Personal narratives
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- History
- Personal narratives
- History.
- Biographies.
- Récits personnels.
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Previously published: The autobiography of a runaway slave / edited by Miguel Barnet ; translated from the Spanish by Jocasta Innes. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 1968.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-213).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Translator's preface -- Slavery. First memories ; Life in the Barracoons ; Life in the woods -- The abolition of slavery. Life in the Sugarmills -- The War of Independence. Life during the war -- Afterword -- Glossary.
- ISBN
- 1880684187
- 9781880684184
- LCCN
- 94012832
- OCLC
- 30624609
- SCSB-11247668
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library