Esteban Montejo

Esteban Mesa Montejo (1860-1965) had been a runaway Cuban slave. He told his story to the Cuban ethnologist Miguel Barnet in taped interviews carried out in 1963.[1] Barnet edited the transcripts and published them in 1966, as Biografía de un cimarrón. An English translation has been published as Biography of a runaway slave[2] and The autobiography of a runaway slave.[3]

Montejo's and Barnet's book includes descriptions of African religious expression and of Montejo's life as a fugitive slave, along with recollections of the Cuban war for independence from Spain, which ultimately involved the United States. The book ends in 1905, following the US occupation of 1898-1902.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 H-Net review of Biography of a Runaway Slave
  2. ↑ Montejo, Esteban (1994). Biography of a runaway slave. Willimantic, CT East Haven, CT: Curbstone Press Distributed by InBook. ISBN 978-1-880684-18-4.
  3. ↑ Montejo, Esteban (1966). The autobiography of a runaway slave. London,Sydney: Bodley Head. ISBN 9780370004495.

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