The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave : Juan Francisco Manzano 1797-1854 / by J. Manzano ; edited by E. Mullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manzano, J., Author.

Contributor:

Mullen, E., Editor.

Series:

Afro-Latin@ Diasporas, 2945-6843

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

America--Literatures.

America.

Poetry and Poetics.

North American Literature.

Local Subjects:

Poetry and Poetics.

North American Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba; PREFACE; The Slave-Trade Merchant; The Sugar Estate; Life of the Negro Poet; Poems, Written in Slavery, by Juan -; TO DEATH; TO CALUMNY; RELIGION: AN ODE; THIRTY YEARS; THE CUCUYA; OR FIRE-FLY; THE CLOCK THAT GAINS; THE DREAM; A SPECIMEN OF INEDITED CUBAN POEMS; APPENDIX; In Re, Slave-Trade: Questions Addressed to Senor

of Havana, by R. R. Madden, and Answers Thereunto of Senor

Questions Respecting the State of Religion in Cuba, Addressed to Senor *** of the Havana, by R. R. M. and the Answers Given to Them.NECESSITY OF SEPARATING THE IRISH IN AMERICA FROM THE SIN OF SLAVERY; BARTHOLOMEW LAS CASAS; EVILS OF THE CUBAN SLAVE-TRADE; CONDITION OF SLAVES IN CUBA; LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF SLAVES IN CUBA; EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES IN CUBA; GLOSSARY OF CREOLE TERMS IN COMMON USE IN CUBA, AND OF THOSE RELATIVE TO SLAVERY AND THE TRADE IN SLAVES; MANZANO'S POEMS IN THE ORIGINAL SPANISH; MIS TREINTA AÑOS; EL RELOX ADELANTADO; LA COCUYERA; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349502868

1349502863

9781137481382

1137481382