The biography of a runaway slave

In this remarkable testimony, Cuban novelist and anthropologist Miguel Barnet presents the narrative of year-old Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave.!

The autobiography of a runaway slave / edited by Miguel Barnet ; translated from the Spanish by Jocasta Innes.

Originally published in , Miguel Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written history of the life of Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as.

In this remarkable testimony, Cuban novelist and anthropologist Miguel Barnet presents the narrative of year-old Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave.

A trend-setting book that inaugurated and then became the standard for what was to be known as testimonio, or testimonial narrative, in Latin America.

In this remarkable testimony, Cuban novelist and anthropologist Miguel Barnet presents the narrative of year-old Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier in the Cuban War of Independence.

Biography of a Runaway Slave

by Miguel Barnet

THE LITERARY WORK

A biography of Esteban Montejo set in Cuba from his birth in 1860 to the turn of the century; published in Spanish (as Biografía de un cimarrón) in 1966, in English in 1968 under the title Autobiography of a Runaway Slave, and in 1994 as Biography of a Runaway Steve

SYNOPSIS

Written by Barnet in the first-person voice of Montejo, the biography recounts Montejo’s life as a slave, runaway, plantation worker, and rebel soldier in the Cuban War of Independence.

Events in History at the Time the Biography Takes Place

The Biography in Focus

Events in History at the Time the Biography was Written

For More Information

Miguel Barnet was born in 1940 and raised in Havana, Cuba.

In the late 1950s he became interested in Afro-Cuban religion and trained as a folklorist under the direction of Fernando Ortiz, a pioneer in the study of Afro-Cuban culture. The Cuban Revolution (1959) had a tremendous impact on Barne