Format:
Online-Ressource (lxix, 240 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
081665008X
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0816650098
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9780816650088
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9780816650095
Uniform Title:
Para la historia. 〈engl.〉
Content:
In 1896, an illiterate, fifteen-year-old Afro-Cuban field hand joined the rebel army fighting for Cuba's independence. Though poor and uneducated, Ricardo Batrell believed in the promise of Cuba Libre, the vision of a democratic and egalitarian nation that inspired the Cuban War of Independence. After the war ended in 1898, Batrell taught himself to read and write and published a memoir of his wartime experiences, Para la Historia . Originally published in 1912-the same year in which the Cuban government massacred more than 5,000 Afro-Cubans-this work of both protest and patriotism is the only
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Translation of: Para la historia : apuntes autobiográficos de la vida de Ricardo Batrell Oviedo. Habana : Seoane y Alvarez, impresores, 1912
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Contents; Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban Racial Narrative: An Introduction to A Black Soldier's Story; A Note on Translation and Editing; A Black Soldier's Story; Looking for Ricardo Batrell in Havana: An Appendix Essay; Acknowledgments; Translator's Notes; Works Cited; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Translated from the Spanish
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816650088
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A Black Soldier's Story : The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
Language:
English
