The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave
Auteur : Esteban Montejo, Miguel Barnet
Date de publication : 1973
Éditeur : Vintage Books
Nombre de pages : 223
Résumé du livre
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 the land and becoming half savage. After slavery was abolished, he came out of hiding got work once again in the fields, and eventually became a revolutionary.