The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave

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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.

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• [Biografía de un cimarrón.] The autobiography of a runaway slave di Esteban Montejo (1970)